Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inclined or willing to submit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined or ready to submit; yielding to power or authority; obedient; humble.
- Testifying or showing submission: of things.
- Synonyms Compliant, yielding, obsequious, subservient, tractable, docile; resigned, uncomplaining, unrepining, patient, long-suffering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
- adjective Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
submits - adjective Meekly
obedient orpassive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
- adjective inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
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Examples
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The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions.
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Saying that to be Christian women have to be submissive is like saying that Christians have to be anti-Semitic because the Gospel of Matthew villanizes Jews, without taking into account his audience or his purpose in writing.
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The creepy spectacle of watching one warrior after the next insist that we must risk other people's lives and bomb more people so that we don't feel girlish and scared and submissive is repugnant enough, in itself, to have to witness on a daily basis.
September 2006 2006
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Golfing sportsman said it best submissive is the way to go, they know what you want out of them, and are eager to please you.
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Golfing sportsman said it best submissive is the way to go, they know what you want out of them, and are eager to please you.
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She sat still, in submissive patience, her cheek pale with the working of a heart too big for that little body.
Queechy 1854
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That they won’t see you so long as you remain submissive?
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Quiverfull and what could be called the submissive lifestyle are ultimately convictions of faith, and many women choose to follow them regardless of potential hardships.
Extreme Motherhood 2009
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They also call a submissive wife a "cricket on the stove"; I just hope they're not lighting the burners to watch it jump -- no spousal abuse, please!
Amanda ReCupido: "Leftover Christmas Cake" and Other Anti-feminist Expressions 2009
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Refers to a submissive male cross-dresser or a male submissive who is panty trained even though he is not actually a transvestite.
Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000
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