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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"
2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes- man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient" [syn: slavish, subservient, submissive]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1565 1. a. of or characteristic of a slave; especially basely or abjectly servile b. archaic despicable, low 2. archaic oppressive, tyrannical 3. copying obsequiously or without originality ; imitative Synonyms: see subservient • slavishly adverb • slavishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of, like, or as of slaves. 2 showing no attempt at originality or development. 3 abject, servile, base. Derivatives: slavishly adv. slavishness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slavish Slav"ish, a. Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use slavish to describe things that copy or imitate something exactly, without any attempt to be original. She herself insists she is no slavish follower of fashion. ADJ [disapproval] • slavishly Most have slavishly copied the design of IBM's big mainframe machines... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Servile, low, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, sneaking, beggarly, base-minded, low-minded. 2. Drudging, laborious, menial, servile.

Moby Thesaurus

abused, apish, base, browbeaten, difficult, downtrod, downtrodden, emulative, formidable, ground down, heavy, henpecked, imitative, in leading strings, knotty, laborious, mean, menial, miserable, misused, obeisant, obsequious, operose, oppressed, ordered around, overborne, regimented, rough, rugged, servile, spineless, strenuous, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, trampled, tyrannized, uninspired, unmanned, unoriginal, wretched