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    submissive
    /səbˈmɪsɪv/

    adjective

    • 1. ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive: "a submissive, almost sheeplike people"

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  2. SUBMISSIVE definition: 1. allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals: 2. allowing yourself to be…. Learn more.

  3. When you are submissive, you submit to someone else's will, which literally, you put your own desires lower than theirs. You can see this in the Latin root of submit, submittere, which is formed by sub- "under" + mittere "send, put."

  4. Submissive definition: inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient. See examples of SUBMISSIVE used in a sentence.

  5. The meaning of SUBMISSIVE is submitting to others. How to use submissive in a sentence.

  6. allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals: He was looking for a quiet, submissive wife who would obey his every word. In the presence of older birds, the younger eagles tend to be submissive. Synonyms. servile disapproving. slavish disapproving. Opposites. dominant. domineering disapproving. Fewer examples.

  7. Definition of submissive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  8. If you are submissive, you obey someone without arguing. Some doctors want their patients to be submissive.

  9. Define submissive. submissive synonyms, submissive pronunciation, submissive translation, English dictionary definition of submissive. adj. Inclined or willing to submit. sub·mis′sive·ly adv. sub·mis′sive·ness n.

  10. What does the word submissive mean? There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the word submissive. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the word submissive? About 2 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the word submissive pronounced?

  11. SUBMISSIVE meaning: always doing what other people tell you to do: . Learn more.