subservient

Adjective

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
  • slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
    
  • a slavish yes-man to the party bosses- S.H.Adams
    
  • she has become submissive and subservient
    

• serving or acting as a means or aid
  • instrumental in solving the crime
    

• compliant and obedient to authority
  • editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones-G. B. Shaw
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  slavish , submissive , implemental , instrumental