submissive

submissive
adj
1. acquiescent, yielding, compliant, pliant, malleable; flexible, accommodating, amenable, agreeable, adapting, adaptable; dutiful, faithful, respectful, deferential, capitulating; willing, assenting, complying, obliging, obedient, obeying; tractable, manageable, nonresisting, unassertive, docile, timid; patient, gentle, meek, passive, subdued.
2. subservient, servile, obsequious, ingratiating, obei-sant, prostrate, Archaic. sequacious; truckling, bowing, scraping, fawning, cowering, cringing, crawling, toadying, toadyish, Inf. bootlicking, self-effacing, self-surrendering, self-abasing.

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  • Submissive — Sub*mis sive, a. 1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one s inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. [1913 Webster] Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Showing a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • submissive — index malleable, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, powerless …   Law dictionary

  • submissive — (adj.) 1580s, inclined to submit, from L. submiss , pp. stem of submittere (see SUBMISSION (Cf. submission)) + IVE (Cf. ive). Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness …   Etymology dictionary

  • submissive — *tame, subdued Analogous words: docile, tractable, amenable, biddable, *obedient: meek, lowly, *humble: *subservient, servile, slavish, menial Antonyms: rebellious …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • submissive — [adj] compliant abject, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, bowing down, comformable, complying, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, giving in*, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedient …   New thesaurus

  • submissive — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ meekly obedient or passive. DERIVATIVES submissively adverb submissiveness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • submissive — [səb mis′iv] adj. [< L submissus, pp. of submittere (see SUBMIT) + IVE] having or showing a tendency to submit without resistance; docile; yielding submissively adv. submissiveness n …   English World dictionary

  • Submissive — Submissiveness is the incidence or trait of yielding to the expressed will of another person or some display of force. It can be found in everyday human interaction. Submissiveness can be a benign aspect of the social fabric, or it may be part of …   Wikipedia

  • submissive — submissively, adv. submissiveness, n. /seuhb mis iv/, adj. 1. inclined or ready to submit; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants. 2. marked by or indicating submission: a submissive reply. [1580 90; SUBMISS + IVE] Syn. 1.… …   Universalium

  • submissive — adj. submissive to * * * [səb mɪsɪv] submissive to …   Combinatory dictionary

  • submissive — [[t]səbmɪ̱sɪv[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you are submissive, you obey someone without arguing. Most doctors want their patients to be submissive. Syn: passive Ant: assertive Derived words: submissively ADV GRADED The troops submissively laid down their… …   English dictionary

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