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adjective

Submissive adj.

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. "Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking."

Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. "With a submissive step I hasted down."

Synonyms: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive.

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Etymology of 'Submissive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Submissive" Quotes from Famous Books

... were, they had got to stand the chances of the world they lived in; and when Adams started back to Cambridge, to take up again the humble tasks of schoolmaster and editor he was harnessed to his cart. Education, systematic or accidental, had done its worst. Henceforth, he went on, submissive. ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... was the snap of budding wrath. The first surprise having vanished, they seemed disposed to rise up and fall upon the recent arrival. But some one behind him appeared to be controlling them with murmured orders, and they finally obeyed him, lowering their eyes in submissive restraint. ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... and vengeance in his heart, but outwardly smiling and submissive, Field-Marshal Count Munnich betook himself to the palace of the Duke of Brunswick to kiss the hand of the ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... number I who write am one, Should be immune from colds; they sound absurd When bidding men to "boove to th' right id Fours," Or "order arbs" (or slope) or "stad at ease," Or "od the left" (or right) to "forb platood." Even the most submissive men begin To lose respect when such commands ring out. Wherefore, my cold—atchoo, atchoo—be off, Lest I report you and your deeds aright To Mr. TENNANT at the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 • Various

... think he adopts this attitude, when he must have been sure that all were guiltless? He perhaps believes that they are victims of a conspiracy, the object of which is to place them in the power of this Egyptian governor, and he thinks that this submissive attitude is best calculated to ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education

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