Associations to the word «Submissive»

Wiktionary

SUBMISSIVE, noun. One who submits
SUBMISSIVE, adjective. Meekly obedient or passive.

Dictionary definition

SUBMISSIVE, adjective. 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".
SUBMISSIVE, adjective. Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope