submissive
- inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- marked by or indicating submission or an instance of yielding to the authority of another: a submissive reply.
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meek, accommodating, deferential, passive, obedient, dutiful, abject, amenable, docile, domesticated, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, menial, obeisant, obsequious, patient, pliable, pliantExamples from the Web for submissive
Contemporary Examples of submissive
Many young women in the BDSM subculture find their way into a dominant role, whether coming from a submissive standpoint or not.
There are three types of cuckolded men: the submissive, forced bisexual, and the voyeurs.
They do it because they want women to be submissive, second-class citizen.
Girls were raised to marry early, to be submissive, to mother large families, and to find employment to support all of them.
But they could come up with a competitive candidate who would be neither the dominant Berlusconi nor the submissive Alfano.
Historical Examples of submissive
There was something about her eyes not unlike the dog's expression, submissive, but questioning.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
The officers then could not abide him, though some were submissive to him because of his father's position.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
It has been questioned, however, whether in this instance he was not too submissive.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
And I wait, submissive to His will, for nothing happens unless He wills it.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
The man, the most submissive; the woman, the most affectionate.
Slavery Ordained of GodRev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
submissive
- of, tending towards, or indicating submission, humility, or servility
Word Origin and History for submissive
1580s, "inclined to submit," from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.