Submissive Synonyms and Antonyms

səb-mĭs'ĭv

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Synonyms for Submissive

yielding
Bending easily; flexible
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obsequious
The definition of obsequious is showing too much willingness to serve someone or something.
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subalternate
Succeeding by turns; successive.
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meek
The definition of meek is someone or something that does not have force or someone who is willing to give into others.
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obedient
Obeying or willing to obey; submissive
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nonresistant
Submissively obedient.
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biddable
Ready to do as bidden; obedient
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conformable
(Geology) Of, relating to, or being rock or sediment strata that were deposited either adjacent to each other or in vertical sequence without interruption by a disruptive or altering process such as erosion or folding.
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penitent
The definition of penitent is feeling or showing remorse for something.
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resigned
Feeling or showing resignation; submissive; yielding and uncomplaining
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servile
(Grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
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subservient
Useful in an inferior capacity.
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tame
(Mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
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acquiescence
Tacit or passive conduct that implies agreement or consent. For example, if one makes a statement and another is silent when an objection should be forthcoming, the second person’s acquiescence to the statement may be inferred.
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amenability
The state or quality of being amenable.
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obsequiousness
The quality of being obsequious; servile compliance
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servility
The condition of being servile.
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compliant
Inclined or willing to comply; obedient:
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dutiful
Careful to fulfill obligations.
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submissiveness
The state or quality of being submissive.
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passive
(Electronics) Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy:
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accommodating
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
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acquiescent
Acquiescing; agreeing or consenting without protest
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amenable
Ready to consent; agreeable:
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complying
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deferential
The definition of deferential is behavior or actions that show respect.
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humble
Showing deferential or submissive respect:
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mild
(Of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
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slavish
Showing no originality; blindly imitative:
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tractable
(Mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
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supple
Lithe and agile when moving and bending
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cringing
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fawning
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ministerial
(Especially law) Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
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subdued
The definition of subdued is a mood of having been calmed or quieted.
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subsidiary
The definition of subsidiary is something that gives support, something that is secondary in importance or an organizational group that is in a lower organizational position.
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unassertive
Not assertive
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genuflection
The act of genuflecting
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inertia
(Physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
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subject
Prone; disposed:
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tractability
The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
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Antonyms for Submissive

defiant
Marked by defiance; boldly resisting.
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insubmissive
Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient
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intractable
Not tractable
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rebellious
Opposing any kind of control; defiant
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refractory
(Medicine) Difficult to treat.
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domineering
Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
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obstinate
Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
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fighting
Engaged in war or other conflict
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resistant
Capable of, offering, or showing resistance. Often used in combination:
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unyielding
Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
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Words Related to Submissive

docile
Easy to manage or discipline; submissive
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resist
Submitting without objection or resistance
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domineer
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Submissive Sentence Examples

  • Natasha went back to her father in the other box, now quite submissive to the world she found herself in.

  • Bayle also paraded the opposition between reason and revelation; but the argument in his hands is a double-edged weapon, and when he extols the merits of submissive faith his sincerity is at least questionable.

  • But the proud Israelites did not remain submissive for long; Damascus had indeed fallen, but neither Philistia nor Edom had yet been crushed.

  • There he disowned the sermons of the pardonsellers, let it be seen that he did not approve of the action of the Legate, and so prevailed with Luther that the latter promised to write a submissive letter to the pope, to exhort people to reverence the Roman See, to say that Indulgences were useful to remit canonical penances, and to promise to write no more on the matter unless he happened to be attacked.

  • In many cases sober convictions or submissive assent supplied the want of spontaneous enthusiasm.

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