Servile vs Sordid - What's the difference?
servile | sordid | Related terms |
of or pertaining to a slave
* Alexander Pope
submissive or slavish
(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e'' in ''tune .
Dirty or squalid.
Morally degrading.
* 1912 ,
Grasping.
Servile is a related term of sordid.
As adjectives the difference between servile and sordid
is that servile is of or pertaining to a slave while sordid is dirty or squalid.As a noun servile
is (grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root.servile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
- servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience
- a servile letter
Antonyms
* radicalAnagrams
* * ----sordid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.