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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
  2. adj. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of. pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting slaves; servile; base: as, slavish fears; a slavish dependence on the great.
  2. Lacking originality or due independence.
  3. Like that of a slave; servile; consisting of drudgery and laborious toil: as, slavish service.
  4. Enslaved; oppressed.
  5. Synonyms Cringing, obsequious, fawning, groveling.—3. Drudging, menial.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. in the manner of a slave; abject.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. blindly imitative
  2. adj. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

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