reverent
adjective. respectful
servile
adjective. grovelling, subservient
submissive
adjective. compliant
- abject
- accommodating
- acquiescent
- amenable
- bowing down
- comformable
- complying
- deferential
- docile
- domesticated
- dutiful
- giving-in
- humble
- ingratiating
- lowly
- malleable
- meek
- menial
- nonresistant
- nonresisting
- obedient
- obeisant
- obeying
- obsequious
- passive
- patient
- pliable
- pliant
- resigned
- servile
- slavish
- subdued
- tame
- tractable
- uncomplaining
- unresisting
- yes
- yielding
subservient
adjective. extremely compliant
- a slave to
- abject
- acquiescent
- at one's beck and call
- at one's mercy
- bootlicking
- cowering
- cringing
- dancing
- deferential
- docile
- fawning
- ignoble
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- inferior
- mean
- menial
- obeisant
- obsequious
- resigned
- servile
- slavish
- subject
- submissive
- sycophantic
- under one's thumb
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