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Definition of subservient:

Serving to promote some particular purpose or end; subordinate; useful as an instr. to promote a purpose.

Synonyms:

good, law-abiding, implemental, obsequious, collateral, instrumental, cooperative, incidental, ancillary, over, in descending order, part, obsequious, legalistic.

inferior (part of speech: adjective)
- junior,
- subject,
- below,
- underling,
- second,
- inferior,
- dependent,
- under,
- lesser,
- subordinate
subordinate (part of speech: verb)
- servile,
- subsidiary,
- subordinate,
- subjected,
- unfranchised,
- enslaved,
- bound,
- subjugated,
- enthralled,
- compliant,
- submissive,
- deferent,
- junior,
- constrained,
- under,
- auxiliary,
- secondary,
- dependent,
- supine,
- subject,
- obedient
servile (part of speech: adjective)
- curtsying,
- yielding,
- acquiescent,
- browbeaten,
- submissive,
- feudal,
- humble,
- devoted,
- servile,
- downtrodden,
- slavish,
- complaisant,
- genuflecting,
- deferential,
- attending,
- inferior,
- groveling,
- menial,
- obedient,
- subjected,
- kowtowing,
- docile,
- subordinate,
- biddable,
- dutiful,
- willing

Usage examples:

For so long now had the opera been the thing that ruled in her life with Claude, for so long had everything centered round it, been subservient to it, that Charmian could scarcely conceive of life without it.

- "The Way of Ambition", Robert Hichens.
Nor was this all, but he also made his conversation with people abroad, his common speech, and his business, subservient to his studies, taking from hence occasions and arguments as matter to work upon.

- "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
Or a subservient feringhi woman whose parts are dry from lack of desire?

- "The Moghul", Thomas Hoover.