Submissive synonyms

səb-mĭs'ĭv

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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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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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humble
Showing deferential or submissive respect:
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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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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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subalternate
Succeeding by turns; successive.
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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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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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passive
(Electronics) Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy:
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docile (related)
Easy to manage or discipline; submissive
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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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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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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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subject
Prone; disposed:
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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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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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defiant (antonym)
Marked by defiance; boldly resisting.
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insubmissive (antonym)
Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient
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intractable (antonym)
Not tractable
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rebellious (antonym)
Opposing any kind of control; defiant
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refractory (antonym)
(Medicine) Difficult to treat.
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domineering (antonym)
Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
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obstinate (antonym)
Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
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fighting (antonym)
Engaged in war or other conflict
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resistant (antonym)
Capable of, offering, or showing resistance. Often used in combination:
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unyielding (antonym)
Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
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disobedient (antonym)
Not obedient.
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supple
Lithe and agile when moving and bending
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resist (related)
Submitting without objection or resistance
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domineer (related)
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self-willed (related)
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self-confident (related)
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tractability
The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
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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.

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

  • 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.

  • To Nur-ed-din he was invariably submissive, but from the vigour which he employed in adding to the fortifications of Cairo and the haste with which he retreated from an attack on Montreal (1171) and Kerak (1173) it is clear that he feared his lord's jealousy.

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

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