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submissive

 
Adjective submissive has 3 senses
  1. submissive - 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"
    Antonyms:
    domineering, authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing, autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory, blustery, bullying, cavalier, high-handed, heavy-handed, roughshod, imperious, masterful, oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous
  2. submissive - willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
    Antonym:
    insubordinate (indirect, via subordinate)
  3. slavish, subservient, submissive - 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"
    Antonyms: unservile, unsubmissive (indirect, via servile)
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