'Submissive' definitions:
Definition of 'submissive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [ant: domineering]
adjective
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" [syn: slavish, subservient, submissive]
Definition of 'Submissive'
From: GCIDE
- 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 readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. [1913 Webster]
- With a submissive step I hasted down. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. [1913 Webster] -- {Sub*mis"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Sub*mis"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'submissive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- abused,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- adaptable,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- adjusting,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- amenable,
- approving,
- ass-kissing,
- assentatious,
- assenting,
- base,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bow,
- bring,
- browbeaten,
- brown-nosing,
- capitulate,
- cave,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- defer,
- deferential,
- deliver,
- devoted,
- docile,
- domestic,
- domesticated,
- downtrod,
- downtrodden,
- ductile,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- elastic,
- endorsing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- faithful,
- favorable,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- ground down,
- hand in,
- henpecked,
- humble,
- humble-minded,
- humble-spirited,
- humblehearted,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in leading strings,
- ingratiating,
- knuckle,
- knuckle under,
- law-abiding,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- loyal,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- mean,
- meek,
- meek-minded,
- meek-spirited,
- meekhearted,
- menial,
- misused,
- moldable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obeying,
- obsequious,
- offer,
- on bended knee,
- oppressed,
- ordered around,
- other-directed,
- overborne,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- poor in spirit,
- present,
- proffer,
- prompt,
- prostrate,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- refer,
- regimented,
- resigned,
- responsive,
- sanctioning,
- send,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- servile,
- shapable,
- slavish,
- springy,
- subdued,
- submit,
- subservient,
- succumb,
- supine,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- sycophantic,
- tender,
- timid,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trampled,
- truckling,
- tyrannized,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unmanned,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- whippy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- yielding