submissive
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submissive
- /səbˈmɪsɪv/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪsɪv
adjective more submissive · most submissive
- Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious. The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country,
- Desiring or engaging in sexual submission.
Similar: biddable, docile, meek, slavish, timid, obedient, subservient, cowed · Opposite: dominant, domineering, defiant, rebellious
noun submissives
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One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
Similar: sub · Opposite: dominant, dominatrix, dominator, dom
- One who submits. These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: subservient, subordinate, slavish, compliant, servile, meek, abject, henpecked, bowing, grovelling, groveling, spiritless, cringing, bowed, wormlike, wormy
adjective
Similar: biddable, docile, meek, slavish, timid, obedient, subservient, cowed · Opposite: dominant, domineering, defiant, rebellious
Translations
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adj meekly obedient or passive
| Español | sumiso |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 服従的な fukujūteki na, M (M) |
| 中文 | 服從的 /服从的 fúcóng de |
| Português | submisso, submissivo |
| Français | soumis |
| Deutsch | submissiv, unterwürfig, demütig, fügsam, gefügig, gehorsam |
| Italiano | sottone, sottona |
| Ελληνικά | υποτακτικός ypotaktikós |
| Română | supus, docil, umil |
| Русский | поко́рный pokórnyj, смире́нный smirénnyj, послу́шный poslúšnyj |
| العربية | خَاضِع ḵāḍiʕ |
| עברית | כָּנוּעַ kanúa |
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title = {submissive},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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