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Definitions for Submissive
səbˈmɪs ɪvsub·mis·sive

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. submissivenoun

    one who submits

  2. submissiveadjective

    Meekly obedient or passive.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Submissiveadjective

    Humble; testifying submission or inferiority.

    Etymology: submissus, Lat.

    On what submissive message art thou sent? William Shakespeare.

    Her at his feet submissive in distress
    He thus with peaceful words uprais’d. John Milton.

    Sudden from the golden throne,
    With a submissive step I hasted down;
    The glowing garland from my hair I took,
    Love in my heart, obedience in my look. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia

  1. submissive

    Deference (also called submission or passivity) is the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one's superior or superiors. Deference implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior, out of respect or reverence. Deference has been studied extensively by political scientists, sociologists, and psychologists.

ChatGPT

  1. submissive

    Submissive is a term used to describe a person, behavior, or attitude characterized by willingness to yield to others' authority or will. It involves being compliant, obedient, or surrendering one's own desires or will and accepting or acknowledging the dominance or control of another. Submissiveness can often be seen in various contexts such as social dynamics, relationships, hierarchies, or even sexual behaviour.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Submissiveadjective

    inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble

  2. Submissiveadjective

    showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Submissive in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Submissive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Submissive in a Sentence

  1. Jarrett Maupin:

    He was totally compliant, submissive even still not enough to save him from the ferocious violence of the police department.

  2. Bella Thorne:

    I'm really lucky that Pornhub wanted to come on and produce this with me because originally I was shopping it around a very long time ago and things were very different, people are kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive( ness) between a male and a female and how this relationship can turn quite sour.

  3. Nisar Hussain:

    She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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