Submissive
adj, noun ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
- 2 One who submits. rare
"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."
- 1 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, which gave them a consideration independent of the court."
- 1 inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination wordnet
- 2 abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant wordnet
Example
More examples"The idea that Japanese women are submissive and always obedient to their husbands is a lie."
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