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Adjectives (3)

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

subservient, submissive

adj. 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"

Fuzzynyms (9)

bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish

adj. attempting to win favor by flattery

cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy

adj. totally submissive

Synonyms (30)

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

cliched, ready-made

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

imitative, copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

obsequious

adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"

slavelike

adj. suitable for a slave or servant

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imperative > rumble > dropping zone > malignant > without favoring one party > indentation > fairly > slavish

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