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say it: SUR-vuhl
servile is an adjective meaning "submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior". It carries 2 recorded senses.
submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
“spoke in a servile tone”
“the incurably servile housekeeper”
“servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work”
relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
“Brown's attempt at servile insurrection”
“the servile wars of Sicily”
“servile work”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for servile come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.