# submissive

Pronunciation: say "suhb-MIS-iv" /səbˈmɪsɪv/

## Adjective

1. Meekly obedient or passive, and overly eager to please or defer to others.
   - Simple: Quietly doing whatever others say, and too eager to please them.
   - _Years of harsh discipline had left the recruits submissive and afraid to question orders._
   - _Critics say the board is too submissive to the company's founder to challenge any of her plans._

## Noun

2. In BDSM, a person who submits to a dominating partner.
   - Simple: In BDSM, the partner who chooses to give up control to the partner in charge.
   - _A submissive in a healthy arrangement can stop everything with a single safe word._
   - _The workshop taught dominants and submissives how to talk through their limits before anything begins._

## Noun

3. A person who submits to the authority or control of another. *(rare)*
   - Simple: A person who gives in and accepts someone else's control.
   - _The settlers left the submissives in peace but hunted down the bands that kept resisting._
   - _In the governor's reports, every chief who signed the treaty was counted as a submissive._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/submissive (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).