of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.-held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.-not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.-not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.-an element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.