Submissive synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
Bending easily; flexible
The definition of obsequious is showing too much willingness to serve someone or something.
Careful to fulfill obligations.
The state or quality of being submissive.
(Electronics) Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy:
docile (related)
Easy to manage or discipline; submissive
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
Advertisement
Ready to consent; agreeable:
Inclined or willing to comply; obedient:
The definition of deferential is behavior or actions that show respect.
Showing deferential or submissive respect:
The definition of meek is someone or something that does not have force or someone who is willing to give into others.
Obeying or willing to obey; submissive
The definition of penitent is feeling or showing remorse for something.
Feeling or showing resignation; submissive; yielding and uncomplaining
Showing no originality; blindly imitative:
subalternate
Succeeding by turns; successive.
Advertisement
Given to obsequious flattery.
Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.
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.
The state or quality of being amenable.
obsequiousness
The quality of being obsequious; servile compliance
Submissively obedient.
Ready to do as bidden; obedient
(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.
Acquiescing; agreeing or consenting without protest
(Mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
Advertisement
(Especially law) Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
The definition of subdued is a mood of having been calmed or quieted.
Prone; disposed:
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.
Not assertive
Advertisement
The act of genuflecting
defiant (antonym)
Marked by defiance; boldly resisting.
insubmissive (antonym)
Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient
intractable (antonym)
Not tractable
rebellious (antonym)
Opposing any kind of control; defiant
refractory (antonym)
Advertisement
domineering (antonym)
Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
obstinate (antonym)
Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
resistant (antonym)
Capable of, offering, or showing resistance. Often used in combination:
unyielding (antonym)
Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
disobedient (antonym)
Not obedient.
Moving and bending with agility; limber:
Advertisement
resist (related)
Submitting without objection or resistance
domineer (related)
self-willed (related)
self-confident (related)
The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
Find another word for submissive. In this page you can discover 61 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for submissive, like: yielding, obsequious, dutiful, submissiveness, passive, docile, accommodating, amenable, compliant, deferential and humble.