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slavish
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of SLAVISH
1
using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model <slavish imitations of the great masters will never make you a painter in your own right>
Synonyms apish, canned, emulative, epigonic (or epigonous), formulaic, mimetic, mimic, slavish, unoriginal
Related Words copied, cribbed, plagiarized; artificial, bogus, factitious, fake, false, imitation, man-made, mock, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic; duplicated, photocopied, reduplicated, reproduced, transcribed; backup; counterfeit, deceptive, forged, fraudulent, misleading; cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), perfunctory, routine, uninspired
Antonyms archetypal (also archetypical), original
2
showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness <the wife's slavish agreement with her husband's every thought>
Related Words hangdog, lamblike, sheepish; demure, lowly, meek, modest, retiring, unassuming, unpretentious; fawning, sycophant, sycophantic, toadyish
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