Found 2 items, similar to Submissive.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: submissive submissive adj 1: 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” [ant: domineering] 2: willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent 3: 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” [syn: slavish, subservient]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Submissive Submissive \Sub*mis"sive\, a. 1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. [1913 Webster] Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. [1913 Webster] With a submissive step I hasted down. --Prior. [1913 Webster] Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. [1913 Webster] -- Sub*mis"sive*ly, adv. -- Sub*mis"sive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]