Synonyms Dictionary
2. (all of public services) supplying, providing, furnishing; supplier, provider, furnisher.
3. system, organization, department, agency, commission, bureau, office.
4. waiting on table, waitressing, cocktail waitressing, serving food and drink.
5. employment, employ, work, job, duty, function, capacity, situation, position, station, place, berth.
6. armed forces, military, army, navy, marines, air force, coast guard.
7. services professional services or care, public services, utilities, commoditites.
8. ritual, rite, ceremony, sacrament, vows, solemn pledge.
-adj. 9. useful, of service, serviceable. See serviceable.
-v. 10. work on or do work on, repair, restore, fix or fix up; align, straighten out, set straight or right, adjust, tune up, fine-tune. serviceable, adj. 1. service, useful, of use or service, utilitarian, functional, practical, pragmatic; helpful, beneficial, advantageous, propitious, favorable, valuable, profitable, constructive; instrumental, conducive, contributory, contributive; aidful, aiding, obliging, accommodative, accommodating, helping; available, at-hand, handy, convenient.
2. durable, wearing well, lasting, long-lasting, resistant, rugged, tough, strong. servile, adj. 1. slavish, obsequious, Obs. obse-quent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare, vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy-mouthed; prostrate, obeisant, on one's knees; groveling, crawling, creeping, crouching, slithering; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling.
2. sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, fawning, flattering, truckling, wheedling, toadying, toady-ish, ingratiating, timeserving, SI. bootlicking, SI. footlicking, Inf apple-polishing, SI. brown-nosing, Obs., Rare, blandiloquous; buttery, candied, unctuous, oily, honey-mouthed, smooth-talking, sweet-talking, Rare, blandiloquent.
3. abject, humble, poor, meek, lowly, beggarly, beggared; base, base-spirited, mean, mean-spirited, low, vile, ignoble, inglorious, dishonorable, discreditable, disreputable.
4. unoriginal, lacking originality, unimaginative, prosaic, imitative; inflexible, rigid, stiff; (all in a negative sense) strict, close, exact, undeviating, direct, strightforward, faithful, literal.
5. opressed, suppressed, kept down, downtrodden, Archaic, downtrod; subjugated, in subjection, in bondage, in bonds, in chains, captive, in captivity, enslaved, in slavery, enthralled. servility, n. 1. slavishness, servileness, obsequiousness, obsequence, subservience, Obs. vernility; submissiveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self-abasement; groveling, crawling, creeping, crouching, slithering; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling.
2. sycophancy, sycophantism, flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunt-ing, lip-homage, mouth-honor, unctuousness, Inf. soft soap, SI. bootlicking, SI. footlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, SI. brown-nosing, Rare, blandiloquence, Obs., Rare, blandation, Obs., Rare, blandiloquy.
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