Synonyms for submissive
səbˈmɪs ɪvsub·mis·sive

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1. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   obedient, meek, timid, docile, slavish

   Antonyms:
   dominant, domineering

2. submissiveadjective

   Meekly obedient or passive.

   Synonyms:
   obedient, meek, docile, timid, slavish

   Antonyms:
   domineering, dominant

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1. 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, yielding

   Antonyms:
   determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

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1. submissive

   Synonyms:
   obedient, compliant, yielding, obsequious, humble, docile, modest, passive, acquiescent, subservient

   Antonyms:
   disobedient, incompliant, unyielding, unobsequious, recalcitrant, refractory, proud, resistent, renitent, malcontent, recusant

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1. 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, slavish

   Antonyms:
   autocratic, high-and-mighty, bossy, tyrannous, tyrannical, unsubmissive, dictatorial, unservile, dominating, bullying, high-handed, peremptory, blustery, oppressive, authoritarian, roughshod, cavalier, domineering, magisterial, heavy-handed, overbearing

2. slavish, 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, implemental

   Antonyms:
   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

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1. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, tractable, pliant, docile

2. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   obedient, resigned, uncomplaining, unrepining, patient, long-suffering

3. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   humble, meek, lowly, profound

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1. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, obedient, tractable, meek, resigned, passive

   Antonyms:
   insubmissive, defiant, intractable, rebellious, refractory

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1. List of paraphrases for "submissive":

   slavish, docile

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1. Paige Patterson:

   You have to do what you can at home to be submissive in every way that you can and to elevate him.

2. Elissa Wall:

   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.

3. Hermann Hesse:

   The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

4. Joseph de Maistre:

   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.

5. Kim Bok-dong:

   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.