submissive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sub=mis=sive
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

submissive, a. 

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.  [1913 Webster]

  "With a submissive step I hasted down."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

submissive, adj.
1 humble; obedient.
2 yielding to power or authority; willing to submit.

Derivative

submissively adv. submissiveness n.

Etymology

SUBMISSION after remissive etc.

THESAURUS

submissive

abject, abused, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, amenable, approving, ass-kissing, assentatious, assenting, base, bendable, bending, biddable, bow, bring, browbeaten, brown-nosing, capitulate, cave, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conceding, concessive, conformable, conforming, consentient, consenting, content, defer, deferential, deliver, devoted, docile, domestic, domesticated, downtrod, downtrodden, ductile, duteous, dutiful, eager, elastic, endorsing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faithful, favorable, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, ground down, hand in, henpecked, humble, humble-minded, humble-spirited, humblehearted, impressible, impressionable, in leading strings, ingratiating, knuckle, knuckle under, law-abiding, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loyal, malleable, manageable, mean, meek, meek-minded, meek-spirited, meekhearted, menial, misused, moldable, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nothing loath, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, offer, on bended knee, oppressed, ordered around, other-directed, overborne, passive, permissive, plastic, pliable, pliant, poor in spirit, present, proffer, prompt, prostrate, ratifying, ready, receptive, reconciled, refer, regimented, resigned, responsive, sanctioning, send, sensitive, sequacious, servile, shapable, slavish, springy, subdued, submit, subservient, succumb, supine, supple, surrender, susceptible, sycophantic, tender, timid, toadying, tractable, tractile, trampled, truckling, tyrannized, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unmanned, unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding

ROGET THESAURUS

submissive

Facility

N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.

Submission

N submission, yielding, nonresistance, obedience, surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation, backdown, obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration, surrendering, submissive, resigned, crouching, downtrodden, down on one's marrow bones, on one's bended knee, unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting, pliant, undefended, untenable, indefensible, humble, have it your own way, it can't be helped, amen, da locum melioribus, tempori parendum.

Obedience

N obedience, observance, compliance, submission, subjection, nonresistance, passiveness, resignation, allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion, constancy, fidelity, submissness, submissiveness, ductility, obsequiousness, obedient, complying, compliant, loyal, faithful, devoted, at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call, under beck and call, under control, restrainable, resigned, passive, submissive, henpecked, pliant, unresisted, obediently, in compliance with, in obedience to, to hear is to obey, as you please, if you please, your wish is my command, as you wish, no sooner said than done.

Inexcitability

N inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability, even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion, tolerance, patience, coolth, passiveness, hebetude, hebetation, impassibility, stupefaction, coolness, calmness, composure, placidity, indisturbance, imperturbation, sang froid, tranquility, serenity, quiet, quietude, peace of mind, mental calmness, staidness, gravity, sobriety, Quakerism, philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper, self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins, presence of mind, submission, resignation, sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance, longanimity, fortitude, patience of Job, patience on a monument, patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill', moderation, repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling, restraint, tranquillization, inexcitable, unexcitable, imperturbable, unsusceptible, unpassionate, dispassionate, cold-blooded, irritable, enduring, stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed, sober, sober minded, grave, sober as a judge, grave as a judge, sedate, demure, cool-headed, easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm, quiet as a mouse, tranquil, serene, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, undemonstrative, temperate, composed, collected, unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned, unoffended, unresisting, meek, tolerant, patient, patient as Job, submissive, tame, content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike, gentle as a lamb, suaviter in modo, mild as mothers milk, soft as peppermint, armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering, like patience on a monument smiling at grief, aequo animo, in cold blood, more in sorrow than in anger, Int, patience!, and shuffle the cards, cool calm and collected, keep calm in the midst of a storm, adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspec, quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes, they also serve who only stand and wait.

Humility

N humility, humbleness, meekness, lowness, lowliness, lowlihood, abasement, self-abasement, submission, resignation, condescension, affability, modesty, verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion, sense of shame, sense of disgrace, humiliation, mortification, let down, set down, humble, lowly, meek, modest, humble minded, sober-minded, unoffended, submissive, servile, condescending, affable, humbled, bowed down, resigned, abashed, ashamed, dashed, out of countenance, down in the mouth, down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers, humbled in the dust, browbeaten, chapfallen, crestfallen, dumfoundered, flabbergasted, shorn of one's glory, with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee, on all fours, on one's feet, under correction, with due deference, I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant, my service to you, da locum melioribus, parvum parva decent.