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submissive en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /səbˈmɪsɪv/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.
    • If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph. 1913, Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology, Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92
    • Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive. 2007, Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda, HSRC Press, page 269:
    • 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. 1756, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, G. Bell & sons, page 314:
  2. Desiring or engaging in sexual submission.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more submissive Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most submissive Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

dominant · defiant · domineering · rebellious

Deriveds

unsubmissive · nonsubmissive · finsub · submissiveness · submissively · insubmissive

Relateds

submit

Synonyms

biddable · subservient · slavish · cowed · obedient · docile · meek · timid

Translations (75)

ota ذلیل (meekly obedient or passive) · es sumiso (meekly obedient or passive) · sv underdånig (meekly obedient or passive) · da lydig (meekly obedient or passive) · fi nöyrästi myöntyvä (meekly obedient or passive) · eo submetiĝema (meekly obedient or passive) · mk покорен (meekly obedient or passive) · gmq-osw undirgivin (meekly obedient or passive) · fi nöyrä (meekly obedient or passive) · sk submisívny (meekly obedient or passive) · hsb podwólny (meekly obedient or passive) · tr uysallıkla (meekly obedient or passive) · ja M (M) (meekly obedient or passive) · fi nöyrtyvä (meekly obedient or passive) · cmn 服從的 /服从的 (meekly obedient or passive) · ro umil (meekly obedient or passive) · fi alistuva (meekly obedient or passive) · ru послу́шный (meekly obedient or passive) · ru смире́нный (meekly obedient or passive) · yi אונטערגעוואָרפֿן (meekly obedient or passive) · sh pokoran (meekly obedient or passive) · yi ניכנעדיק (meekly obedient or passive) · fr soumis (meekly obedient or passive) · fo eftirgevin (meekly obedient or passive) · pl uległy (meekly obedient or passive) · la obnoxius (meekly obedient or passive) · ar خَاضِع (meekly obedient or passive) · fo undirbrotligur (meekly obedient or passive) · pl pokorny (meekly obedient or passive) · pt submissivo (meekly obedient or passive) · gmq-osw undirdānogher (meekly obedient or passive) · de fügsam (meekly obedient or passive) · eo cedema (meekly obedient or passive) · nl onderdanig (meekly obedient or passive) · tr teslîmiyetçi (meekly obedient or passive) · ro docil (meekly obedient or passive) · hsb pokorny (meekly obedient or passive) · tr itaatli (meekly obedient or passive) · gv beasagh (meekly obedient or passive) · ru поко́рный (meekly obedient or passive) · de gefügig (meekly obedient or passive) · uk покірний (meekly obedient or passive) · cs poddajný (meekly obedient or passive) · de gehorsam (meekly obedient or passive) · sv undergiven (meekly obedient or passive) · he כָּנוּעַ (meekly obedient or passive) · de submissiv (meekly obedient or passive) · ro supus (meekly obedient or passive) · tr itaatkâr (meekly obedient or passive) · de demütig (meekly obedient or passive) · da underdanig (meekly obedient or passive) · it sottona (meekly obedient or passive) · fo eyðmjúkur (meekly obedient or passive) · az müti (meekly obedient or passive) · bg смирен (meekly obedient or passive) · sv lydig (meekly obedient or passive) · el υποτακτικός (meekly obedient or passive) · gmq-osw lȳdhoger (meekly obedient or passive) · la summissus (meekly obedient or passive) · sh покоран (meekly obedient or passive) · pt submisso (meekly obedient or passive) · bg покорен (meekly obedient or passive) · ang bēogol (meekly obedient or passive) · cs submisivní (meekly obedient or passive) · be пако́рлівы (meekly obedient or passive) · fo lýðin (meekly obedient or passive) · nv hoołtsoodii (meekly obedient or passive) · mi iro (meekly obedient or passive) · de unterwürfig (meekly obedient or passive) · mi iroiro (meekly obedient or passive) · cs pokorný (meekly obedient or passive) · ja 服従的な (meekly obedient or passive) · id submisif (meekly obedient or passive) · it sottone (meekly obedient or passive) · tr boyun eğen (meekly obedient or passive)

submissive en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /səbˈmɪsɪv/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
  2. (rare) 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. 1961, William Compton Brown, The Indian side of the story:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
submissives Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

dominator · dom · dominatrix · dominant

Synonyms

sub

Translations (13)

yi אונטערגעוואָרפֿענע (person submitting to a partner) · fr soumis (person submitting to a partner) · fi alistuja (person submitting to a partner) · eo subulo (person submitting to a partner) · he כָּנוּעַ (person submitting to a partner) · pl uległy (person submitting to a partner) · es sumiso (person submitting to a partner) · fr passif (person submitting to a partner) · fi alistuva (person submitting to a partner) · es sumisa (person submitting to a partner) · yi אונטערגעוואָרפֿענער (person submitting to a partner) · fr soumise (person submitting to a partner) · yi ניכנע (person submitting to a partner)