Definition of servile

• a. - Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
• a. - Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
• a. - Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
• a. - Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
• n. - An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.