Exact Match:
- downtrodden
- abused or oppressed by people in power
Synonyms:
- abject,
- abused,
- afflicted,
- beat,
- beaten,
- browbeaten,
- burdened,
- cowed,
- downtrod,
- ground down,
- henpecked,
- in leading strings,
- maltreated,
- mistreated,
- misused,
- oppressed,
- ordered around,
- overborne,
- overcome,
- overwhelmed,
- persecuted,
- plagued,
- regimented,
- servile,
- slavish,
- subjugated,
- submissive,
- trampled,
- tyrannized,
- underfoot,
- unmanned
Related Words:
- slavish
collapse - 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"
- blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original" related words >
- 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
- abused,
- bond,
- browbeaten,
- burdened,
- captive,
- charged,
- cumbered,
- disenfranchised,
- downtrod,
- downtrodden,
- encumbered,
- enslaved,
- enthralled,
- fraught,
- freighted,
- ground down,
- hampered,
- heavy,
- heavyhearted,
- henpecked,
- in bondage,
- in bonds,
- in captivity,
- in chains,
- in leading strings,
- in slavery,
- in subjection,
- laden,
- laden with sorrow,
- loaded,
- long-faced,
- misused,
- ordered around,
- overborne,
- overburdened,
- overcharged,
- overfraught,
- overfreighted,
- overladen,
- overloaded,
- overtaxed,
- overweighted,
- regimented,
- sad,
- sad of heart,
- sad-eyed,
- sad-faced,
- saddened,
- saddled,
- sadhearted,
- servile,
- slavish,
- subjected,
- subjugated,
- submissive,
- suppressed,
- taxed,
- trampled,
- tyrannized,
- under the heel,
- under the lash,
- unfree,
- unmanned,
- weighed upon,
- weighted,
- weighted down
- servile
collapse
- submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work" related words >
- abject,
- abused,
- accepting,
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- assenting,
- attendant,
- attending,
- base,
- bootlicking,
- browbeaten,
- brown-nosing,
- client,
- common,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- consenting,
- craven,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- demeaning,
- dependent,
- despicable,
- disadvantaged,
- downtrod,
- downtrodden,
- fawning,
- feudal,
- feudatory,
- flattering,
- ground down,
- groveling,
- helping,
- henpecked,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- in leading strings,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- ingratiating,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- liege,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- mean,
- mean-spirited,
- menial,
- ministering,
- minor,
- misused,
- modest,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- oppressed,
- ordered around,
- ordinary,
- overborne,
- passive,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- regimented,
- resigned,
- scurvy,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- serving,
- servitorial,
- slavish,
- slimy,
- smarmy,
- sordid,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- submissive,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- supine,
- sycophantic,
- sycophantish,
- third rank,
- third string,
- toadish,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- trampled,
- tributary,
- truckling,
- tyrannized,
- ugly,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- unctuous,
- underprivileged,
- unmanned,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- vassal,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- waiting,
- wheedling
- submissive
collapse
- inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people" related words >
- abject,
- abused,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- adaptable,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- adjusting,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- amenable,
- approving,
- ass-kissing,
- assentatious,
- assenting,
- base,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bow,
- bring,
- browbeaten,
- brown-nosing,
- capitulate,
- cave,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- defer,
- deferential,
- deliver,
- devoted,
- docile,
- domestic,
- domesticated,
- downtrod,
- downtrodden,
- ductile,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- elastic,
- endorsing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- faithful,
- favorable,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- ground down,
- hand in,
- henpecked,
- humble,
- humble-minded,
- humble-spirited,
- humblehearted,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in leading strings,
- ingratiating,
- knuckle,
- knuckle under,
- law-abiding,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- loyal,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- mean,
- meek,
- meek-minded,
- meek-spirited,
- meekhearted,
- menial,
- misused,
- moldable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obeying,
- obsequious,
- offer,
- on bended knee,
- oppressed,
- ordered around,
- other-directed,
- overborne,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- poor in spirit,
- present,
- proffer,
- prompt,
- prostrate,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- refer,
- regimented,
- resigned,
- responsive,
- sanctioning,
- send,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- servile,
- shapable,
- slavish,
- springy,
- subdued,
- submit,
- subservient,
- succumb,
- supine,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- sycophantic,
- tender,
- timid,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trampled,
- truckling,
- tyrannized,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unmanned,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- whippy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- yielding
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