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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?
When I started, the Japanese military would often beat me because I wasn't submissive, there are no words to describe my suffering. Even now. I can't live without medicine. I'm always in pain.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
You have to do what you can at home to be submissive in every way that you can and to elevate him.
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.
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.
Translations for submissive
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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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