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Servile vs Sordid - What's the difference?

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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)
  • of or pertaining to a slave
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
  • submissive or slavish
  • servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience
  • (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
  • a servile letter
  • (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e'' in ''tune .
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
  • Antonyms

    * radical

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    sordid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
  • 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.
  • Grasping.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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