Definitions for: Submissive


[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"
[adj] willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent



Webster (1913) Definition: Sub*mis"sive, a.
1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's
inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.

Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so
fair his reconcilement seeking. --Milton.

2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as,
a submissive demeanor.

With a submissive step I hasted down. --Prior.

Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient;
humble; modest; passive. -- Sub*mis"sive*ly, adv. --
Sub*mis"sive*ness, n.

Synonyms: abject, bowed, bowing, compliant, cringing, dominated, groveling, grovelling, henpecked, meek, servile, slavish, spiritless, subservient, wormlike, wormy

Antonyms: domineering

See Also: humble, obedient, subordinate, unassertive

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