submissive

Pluralsubmissives

1. 1
   adjective

   Quietly doing whatever others say, and too eager to please them.

   The dog rolled onto its back in a submissive way.

   He became quiet and submissive whenever his boss walked in.

   Similarmeek, docile, compliant, obedient, deferential

   Oppositeassertive, defiant, dominant, rebellious

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   In BDSM, the partner who chooses to give up control to the partner in charge.

   The book explains how a submissive and a dominant agree on rules first.

   She says being a submissive is all about trust.

   Similarsub

   Oppositedominant, dom, dominatrix

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3. 3
   nounrarecountable

   A person who gives in and accepts someone else's control.

   After the war, the submissives were allowed to keep their farms.

   These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.

   1961, William Compton Brown, The Indian side of the storyHere, submissives means people who gave in to the control of others.

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