Usually means: Yielding to authority or control.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Submissive:

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  1. submissive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. submissive: Merriam-Webster
  3. submissive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. submissive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. submissive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. submissive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Submissive, submissive: Wordnik
  8. submissive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. submissive: Wiktionary
  10. submissive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. submissive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. submissive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. submissive: Dictionary.com
  14. submissive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Submissive (BDSM), Submissive (sexual), Submissive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Submissive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. submissive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. submissive: Rhymezone
  19. submissive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. submissive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. submissive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. submissive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. submissive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. submissive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. submissive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (submissive)

▸ adjective:  Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.
▸ noun:  (BDSM) One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
▸ noun:  (rare) One who submits.

Similar:
compliant, meek, subservient, abject, slavish, spiritless, servile, subordinate, cringing, henpecked, more...

Opposite:
dominant, aggressive, assertive, forceful

Types:
doormat, pushover, wimp, spineless, weakling, more...

Phrases:
submissive urination, submissive male, submissive person, be submissive, opposite of submissive, more...

Adjectives:
negative, dead, dominant, unaggressive, aggression

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Similar:
compliant, meek, subservient, abject, slavish, spiritless, servile, subordinate, cringing, henpecked, more...

Opposite:
dominant, aggressive, assertive, forceful

Types:
doormat, pushover, wimp, spineless, weakling, more...

Phrases:
submissive urination, submissive male, submissive person, be submissive, opposite of submissive, overly submissive, submissive lady, submissive violent, humble submissive, to make submissive, more...

Adjectives:
negative, dead, dominant, unaggressive, aggression

Colors:
    beige,     light gray,     pale pink,     soft lavender,     muted blue, more...



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