Umbrage vs Servile - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between umbrage and servile

is that umbrage is feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive while servile is (grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root.

As a verb umbrage

is to displease or cause offense.

As an adjective servile is

of or pertaining to a slave.

umbrage

English

Noun

(en noun)

Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

* , Episode 16

--He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VI , passage=If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.}}

Feeling of doubt.

Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees

(obsolete) shadow, shade

* 1602 , , act V scene 1

[...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage , nothing more.

Synonyms

* (feeling of anger or annoyance) annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique * (feeling of doubt) suspicion

Derived terms

* take umbrage * umbrageous

Verb

(umbrag)

To displease or cause offense.

To shade.

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

Anagrams

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