submissive[adjective]Synonyms: meek, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, compliant, docile, obedient, passive, pliant, tractable, unresisting, yielding
Antonyms: rebellious
Related Words: complying,
conformable,
obeying,
bowing down,
unerect,
menial,
servile,
slavish,
subservient [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
sub‧mis‧sive /səbˈmɪsɪv/
adjective [
Word Family: noun:
submission,
submissiveness;
verb:
submit;
adverb:
submissively;
adjective:
submissive]
always willing to obey someone and never disagreeing with them, even if they are unkind to you
Antonym : assertive:
In those days, women were expected to be quiet and submissive.—submissively adverb—submissiveness noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲