Hyphenation of slavish

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word slavish? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

slav-ish

Definitions of slavish:

1.	Blindly imitative A slavish copy of the original
2.	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

Synonyms of slavish:

adj	unoriginal
adj	subservient, submissive, servile

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.