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Submissive

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Adjective

1. submissive

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

Example Sentences:
'submissive servants'
'a submissive reply'
'replacing troublemakers with more submissive people'

2. slavish, submissive, subservient

abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

Example Sentences:
'slavish devotion to her job ruled her life'
'a slavish yes-man to the party bosses'
'she has become submissive and subservient'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Submissive

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adjective
of, tending towards, or indicating submission, humility, or servility

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Submissive

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adjective
having or showing a tendency to submit without resistance; docile; yielding

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Submissive

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adj.
Inclined or willing to submit.

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