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English Dictionary: submissive by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Antonym(s): domineering
  2. 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"
    Synonym(s): slavish, subservient, submissive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submissive \Sub*mis"sive\, a.
      1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's
            inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
  
                     Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so
                     fair his reconcilement seeking.         --Milton.
  
      2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as,
            a submissive demeanor.
  
                     With a submissive step I hasted down. --Prior.
  
      Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient;
               humble; modest; passive. -- {Sub*mis"sive*ly}, adv. --
               {Sub*mis"sive*ness}, n.
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