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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

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. submissiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    yielding, tractable, pliant, docile

  2. submissiveadjective

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

  3. submissiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    humble, meek, lowly, profound

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. submissiveadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    insubmissive, defiant, intractable, rebellious, refractory

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "submissive":

    slavish, docile

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. submissive

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How to use submissive in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Paige Patterson:

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

  4. Leon Lessinger:

    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.

  5. Pope Francis:

    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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