subservient

Etymology

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“I serve under”).

adj

  1. Useful in an inferior capacity.
  2. Obsequiously submissive.
    Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon. 19 May 2019, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club

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