slavish
See also: Slavish
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsleɪvɪʃ/
- Rhymes: -eɪvɪʃ
Adjective
slavish (comparative more slavish, superlative most slavish)
- in the manner of a slave; abject
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 344:
- “You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”
- utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection
- a slavish reproduction
- slavish observation of rules
Derived terms
Translations
in the manner of a slave
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