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submissive
adjective
(sub-mis-sive)
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
Synonyms:
slavish
,
subservient
,
Examples:
She has become submissive and subservient.
submissive
adjective
(sub-mis-sive)
inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
Antonyms:
domineering
,
Examples:
Submissive servants.
A submissive reply.
Replacing troublemakers with more submissive people.
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subservient
,
servile
,
meek
,
subordinate
,
henpecked
,
groveling
,
slavish
,
spiritless
,
wormy
,
abject
,
dominated
,
wormlike
,
compliant
,
cringing
,
bowing
,
bowed
,
grovelling
,
docile
,
submission
,
controlled
,
subject
,
submitted
,
bidding
,
bid
,
obedient
,
acquiescent
,
dutiful
,
lustful
,
timid
,
assertive
,
disobedient
,
demure
,
obsequious
,
affectionate
,
unassertive
,
domineering
,
bossy
,
incommunicative
,
demissive
,
sexless
,
submissly
,
unwomanly
,
inobedient
,
sluttish
,
morigerous
,
patriarchal
,
chivalrous
,
hypermasculine
,
masculine
,
subjugated
,
manipulative
,
timorous
,
meeken
,
shrewish
,
chauvinist
,
acceptant
,
unaffectionate
,
unloving
,
tyrannical
,
truculent
,
feminine
,
obsequent
,
resentful
,
masculinized
,
matriarchal
,
unfeminine
,
supine
,
rageful
,
dictatorial
,
effeminate
,
patriarchic
,
sexualized
,
sullen
,
vengeful
,
unconfident
,
haughty
,
unfeeling
,
nurturant
,
brutish
,
pliant
,
spinsterish
,
quarrelsome
,
overbearing
,
licentious
,
promiscuous
,
uxorious
,
prudish
,
untrusting
,
brusk
,
obstinate
,
judgmental
,
motherly
,
antipathetic
,
hypersexual
,
extraverted
,
fascistic
,
feckless
,
impotent
,
irresolute
,
uncompassionate
,
submissive
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