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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;
- Example: "submissive servants"
- Example: "a submissive reply"
- Example: "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

2. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
- Example: "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"
- Example: "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams
- Example: "she has become submissive and subservient"
[syn: slavish, subservient, submissive]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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

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: 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,
       submissive]