Subservient
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Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity;serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in onekind or other. Bp. Fell.These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray.Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizingspirit. Burke.
Subservient meaning & definition 1 of Subservient.
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1)Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
2)Less important, subordinate.
3)Serving as a means to an end.Subservient meaning & definition 2 of Subservient.