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submissive
[suhb-mis-iv]
adjective
inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient.
submissive servants.
Antonyms: disobedient, rebelliousmarked by or indicating submission or a yielding to the authority of another.
a submissive reply.
noun
Informal, sub. the participant in a BDSM sexual encounter or relationship who is obedient, giving power and control to another participant.
submissive
/ səbˈmɪsɪv /
adjective
of, tending towards, or indicating submission, humility, or servility
Other Word Forms
- submissively adverb
- submissiveness noun
- nonsubmissive adjective
- nonsubmissively adverb
- nonsubmissiveness noun
- quasi-submissive adjective
- quasi-submissively adverb
- unsubmissive adjective
- unsubmissively adverb
- unsubmissiveness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of submissive1
Example Sentences
Along with her late husband, Kirk has routinely prescribed that women forgo college degrees and careers — even though she has both — so they can fully commit to being submissive housewives.
Maggie is the best-case version of the submissive wife fantasy, a nice lady with a fancy house who wants to be thought well of and refers to her son’s victim as “that poor girl.”
Social media’s entire “tradwife” genre is about professional content creators pretending to be submissive housewives to sell advertising.
He’s a dogmatic submissive, an inner tension illustrated by Penn to marvelous effect when Lockjaw shows up at Perfidia’s door with flowers and, when she doesn’t answer, returns with a battering ram.
If more men stopped wallowing in fantasies of capturing submissive tradwives and learned to just appreciate women as full human beings, that would be great not just for those guys, but also for society.
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