submissive

1. 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”

   Antonymsdomineering

   Similarabjectbowedmeekcringingdominated
2. 2.

   abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

   “slavish devotion to her job ruled her life”

   “a slavish yes-man to the party bosses”

   “she has become submissive and subservient”

   Synonymsslavishsubservient

   Similarservile

Questions about submissive

What does submissive mean?

submissive means "inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in submissive?

submissive has 3 syllables: sub-mis-sive. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /səbˈmɪsɪv/.

What is another word for submissive?

Close synonyms include slavish, subservient. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of submissive?

The recorded antonyms are domineering.

Is submissive a common word?

submissive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with submissive?

2 words rhyme with submissive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.