Submissive
11submissive — [[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… …
12submissive — adjective Date: 1575 submitting to others < submissive employees > • submissively adverb • submissiveness noun …
13submissive — 1. noun one who submits 2. adjective Meekly obedient or passive. The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own… …
14submissive — sub·mis·sive səb mis iv adj characterized by tendencies to yield to the will or authority of others <bullying usually involves a stronger, more dominant personality coercing a weaker, more submissive personality (S. W. Twemlow )(et al)>… …
15submissive — sub|mis|sive [səbˈmısıv] adj always willing to obey someone and never disagreeing with them, even if they are unkind to you ≠ ↑assertive ▪ In those days women were expected to be quiet and submissive. >submissively adv >submissiveness n [U] …
16submissive — sub|mis|sive [ səb mısıv ] adjective willing to do what other people tell you to do without arguing: His mother was a meek and submissive woman. ╾ sub|mis|sive|ly adverb ╾ sub|mis|sive|ness noun uncount …
17submissive — adjective always willing to obey someone even if they are unkind to you: Martin expects his wife to be meek and submissive. submissively adverb submissiveness noun (U) …
18submissive — adjective she s far from being a submissive woman Syn: compliant, yielding, acquiescent, unassertive, passive, obedient, biddable, dutiful, docile, pliant; informal under someone s thumb …
19submissive — UK [səbˈmɪsɪv] / US adjective willing to do what other people tell you to do without arguing His mother was a meek and submissive woman. Derived words: submissively adverb submissiveness noun uncountable …
20submissive — /səbˈmɪsɪv / (say suhb misiv) adjective 1. inclined or ready to submit; unresistingly or humbly obedient. 2. marked by or indicating submission: a submissive reply. –submissively, adverb –submissiveness, noun …
