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Synonyms for submissive
səbˈmɪs ɪvsub·mis·sive
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
submissive
One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.
Synonyms:
amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, pliable, pliant, tame, teachable, tractable, yieldingAntonyms:
determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
submissive
Synonyms:
obedient, compliant, yielding, obsequious, humble, docile, modest, passive, acquiescent, subservientAntonyms:
disobedient, incompliant, unyielding, unobsequious, recalcitrant, refractory, proud, resistent, renitent, malcontent, recusant
Princeton's WordNet
submissiveadjective
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"
Synonyms:
subservient, slavishAntonyms:
autocratic, high-and-mighty, bossy, tyrannous, tyrannical, unsubmissive, dictatorial, unservile, dominating, bullying, high-handed, peremptory, blustery, oppressive, authoritarian, roughshod, cavalier, domineering, magisterial, heavy-handed, overbearingslavish, subservient, submissiveadjective
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"
Synonyms:
subservient, slavish, instrumental, implementalAntonyms:
high-handed, peremptory, bullying, high-and-mighty, autocratic, unsubmissive, heavy-handed, unservile, bossy, blustery, oppressive, cavalier, tyrannical, magisterial, overbearing, tyrannous, domineering, authoritarian, dictatorial, dominating, roughshod
Dictionary of English Synonymes
submissiveadjective
submissiveadjective
Synonyms:
obedient, resigned, uncomplaining, unrepining, patient, long-sufferingsubmissiveadjective
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
submissiveadjective
Synonyms:
yielding, obedient, tractable, meek, resigned, passiveAntonyms:
insubmissive, defiant, intractable, rebellious, refractory
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
submissive
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8242 | instrumental | |
#8588 | passive | |
#10026 | modest | |
#12155 | humble | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#22418 | manageable | |
#22879 | tame | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#29487 | meek | |
#33672 | timid | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#38382 | amenable | |
#57879 | pliable | |
#62620 | subservient | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#88025 | teachable | |
#89266 | pliant | |
#111501 | obsequious | |
#112431 | slavish | |
#256032 | acquiescent |
How to use submissive in a sentence?
You have to do what you can at home to be submissive in every way that you can and to elevate him.
I'm really lucky that Pornhub wanted to come on and produce this with me because originally I was shopping it around a very long time ago and things were very different, people are kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive( ness) between a male and a female and how this relationship can turn quite sour.
I was now the property of my cousin. And no matter how resistant I was to him, his job was to get me into submission as quickly as possible… Then the sexual abuse came later as he started to force himself on me and force that my role as a wife was to be at his beck and call and to have his children. And when I became resistant to that, then the physical abuse started to take over. And I think the frustration of my cousin, his frustration of being judged for not being a good man because his wife wasn’t submissive and she wasn’t good — that all compounded the problem. i felt like something was going terribly wrong.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint.
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- خاضعArabic
- poslušnýCzech
- underdanigDanish
- demütig, gehorsam, gefügig, fügsam, unterwürfigGerman
- υποτακτικόςGreek
- sumisoSpanish
- alistuvaFinnish
- soumisFrench
- submissiveIrish
- beasaghManx
- विनम्रHindi
- sottomessoItalian
- כָּנוּעַHebrew
- 服従的Japanese
- parebantLatin
- iroiro, iroMāori
- onderdanigDutch
- underdanigNorwegian
- uległyPolish
- docil, umil, supusRomanian
- смире́нный, послу́шный, поко́рныйRussian
- ödmjuk, lydig, undergiven, underdånigSwedish
- பணிந்துபோகின்றTamil
- boyun eğen, teslîmiyetçi, itaatli, itaatkâr, uysallıklaTurkish
- покірнийUkrainian
- مطمئنUrdu
- אונטערטעניקYiddish
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