Submissive Synonyms and Antonyms

səb-mĭsĭv
Submitting without objection or resistance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. acquiescent
  2. nonresistant
  3. passive
  4. resigned
Willing to carry out the wishes of others
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. docile
  2. tractable
  3. amenable
  4. compliant
  5. passive
  6. obedient
  7. slavish
  8. yielding
  9. dutiful
  10. subservient
  11. biddable
  12. accommodating
  13. acquiescent
  14. complying
  15. cringing
  16. conformable
  17. deferential
  18. fawning
  19. humble
  20. meek
  21. menial
  22. mild
  23. ministerial
  24. obeisant
  25. obsequious
  26. penitent
  27. supple
  28. resigned
  29. servile
  30. subalternate
  31. subdued
  32. subject
  33. subsidiary
  34. sycophantic
  35. tame
  36. truckling
  37. unassertive
Antonyms:
  1. domineering
  2. defiant
  3. rebellious
  4. insubmissive
  5. intractable
  6. refractory
  7. obstinate
  8. fighting
  9. resistant
  10. unyielding
  11. disobedient

Words Related to Submissive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Submissive Sentence Examples

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

  • I was completely submissive.

  • 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.

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

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

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