Synonyms for submissive
səbˈmɪs ɪvsub·mis·sive

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1. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   obedient, meek, timid, docile, slavish

   Antonyms:
   dominant, domineering

2. submissiveadjective

   Meekly obedient or passive.

   Synonyms:
   obedient, meek, docile, timid, slavish

   Antonyms:
   domineering, dominant

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1. submissive

   One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.

   Synonyms:
   amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, pliable, pliant, tame, teachable, tractable, yielding

   Antonyms:
   determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

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1. submissive

   Synonyms:
   obedient, compliant, yielding, obsequious, humble, docile, modest, passive, acquiescent, subservient

   Antonyms:
   disobedient, incompliant, unyielding, unobsequious, recalcitrant, refractory, proud, resistent, renitent, malcontent, recusant

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1. submissiveadjective

   inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

   "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

   Synonyms:
   subservient, slavish

   Antonyms:
   autocratic, high-and-mighty, bossy, tyrannous, tyrannical, unsubmissive, dictatorial, unservile, dominating, bullying, high-handed, peremptory, blustery, oppressive, authoritarian, roughshod, cavalier, domineering, magisterial, heavy-handed, overbearing

2. slavish, subservient, submissiveadjective

   abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

   "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"

   Synonyms:
   subservient, slavish, instrumental, implemental

   Antonyms:
   high-handed, peremptory, bullying, high-and-mighty, autocratic, unsubmissive, heavy-handed, unservile, bossy, blustery, oppressive, cavalier, tyrannical, magisterial, overbearing, tyrannous, domineering, authoritarian, dictatorial, dominating, roughshod

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1. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, tractable, pliant, docile

2. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   obedient, resigned, uncomplaining, unrepining, patient, long-suffering

3. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   humble, meek, lowly, profound

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1. submissiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, obedient, tractable, meek, resigned, passive

   Antonyms:
   insubmissive, defiant, intractable, rebellious, refractory

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1. List of paraphrases for "submissive":

   slavish, docile

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1. submissive

   Synonyms:
   Bottom

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1. Jarrett Maupin:

   He was totally compliant, submissive even still not enough to save him from the ferocious violence of the police department.

2. Pope Francis:

   A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint.

3. Kim Bok-dong:

   When I started, the Japanese military would often beat me because I wasn't submissive, there are no words to describe my suffering. Even now. I can't live without medicine. I'm always in pain.

4. Bella Thorne:

   I'm really lucky that Pornhub wanted to come on and produce this with me because originally I was shopping it around a very long time ago and things were very different, people are kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive( ness) between a male and a female and how this relationship can turn quite sour.

5. Joseph de Maistre:

   Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.