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    submissive
    /səbˈmɪsɪv/

    adjective

    • 1. ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive: "a submissive, almost sheeplike people"

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  2. Submissive means allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, antonyms, and usage in sentences from the Cambridge Dictionary.

  3. To be submissive is to obey or yield to someone else. When you are submissive, you submit to someone else's will, which literally, you put your own desires lower than theirs. You can see this in the Latin root of submit, submittere , which is formed by sub- "under" + mittere "send, put."

  4. Submissive means allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, antonyms, and usage in sentences from various sources.

  5. The meaning of SUBMISSIVE is submitting to others. How to use submissive in a sentence.

  6. Submissive definition: inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient. See examples of SUBMISSIVE used in a sentence.

  7. Submissive means obeying someone without arguing or showing humility or servility. Learn the synonyms, pronunciation, examples and word origin of submissive from Collins English Dictionary.

  8. Submissive means inclined or willing to submit to the authority or wishes of others. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of this word, as well as related terms and expressions.