slavish
/ˈsleɪvɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.
Example Sentences
- "“You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”"
- "It is characterized by slavish submission to authority, together with a belief that in that submission the values of scientific thought can be preserved."
- "a slavish reproduction"
- "slavish observation of rules"
- "Some time after he proceeded to the University at Prague, in order to prosecute his studies under Professor Czelakowsky, who had removed from Breslau to the University at Prague, as Professor of Slavish languages."
- "The great Russians were first merely a mixture of Swedish, Finnish and Slavish peoples."
Etymology
Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English slavish From slave + -ish.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: slawisch