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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"
    
2. Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
   "she has become submissive and subservient"
   - slavish, subservient

See also: abject, bowed, bowing, cringing, dominated, groveling [US], grovelling [Brit, Cdn], henpecked, humble, meek, obedient, servile, spiritless, submissively, submissiveness, submit, subordinate, unassertive, wormlike, wormy

Antonym: domineering

Encyclopedia: Submissive