Submissive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Submissive \Sub*mis"sive\, a.
     1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's
        inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
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              Not at his feet submissive in distress,


              Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as,
        a submissive demeanor.
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              With a submissive step I hasted down. --Prior.
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     Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient;
          humble; modest; passive.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Sub*mis"sive*ly}, adv. --
          {Sub*mis"sive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  submissive
       adj 1: 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}]
       2: willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
       3: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  171 Moby Thesaurus words for "submissive":
     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