submissiveadj.n.

Brit.

/səbˈmɪsɪv/, U.S.

/səbˈmɪsɪv/

Forms: 1500s–1700s submissiue, 1600s– submissive.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin submiss- , submittere , -ive suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin submiss-, past participial stem of submittere submit v. + -ive suffix. Compare post-classical Latin submissivus (1606 or earlier), Italian †sommessivo (15th cent.). Compare slightly earlier submiss adj.

A. adj.

a. Of a person, action, attribute, etc.: characterized by or displaying submission; yielding to power or authority; humble, obedient.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective]

go-by-ground?a1300

thrall1398

abjectc1430

manly?c1430

servicious1440

serviceable1483

servile1537

tame1563

slavish1565

demiss1572

submissive1572

cringing1579

fawning1585

incrouching?1593

vassal1594

scraping1599

obsequious1602

spaniel1606

observing1609

deprostrate1610

supplea1616

vernile1623

shrugging1629

wormy1640

compliable1641

thrall-like1641

obeisant1642

inservient1646

truckling1656

cringeling1693

benecking1705

subservient1714

footman-like1776

bingeing1805

sidling1821

toadying1863

crawlsome1904

toadyish1909

crawling1941

ass-kissing1942

society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [adjective]

tholemodec1000

bowinga1340

subjectc1384

enclinant1400

yoldena1413

subjective1417

prostratec1425

obtemperate?a1475

subjected1550

subject-like1553

submiss1570

submissive1572

yielding1578

obnoxious1591

subordinate1594

subjectly1596

yieldable1603

dejective1611

passive1616

awebound1631

succumbent1647

resigning1648

complaisant1676

ovine1676

1572 [implied in: D. Fergusson Serm. sig. C. ij.^v He speiks als submissiuely as it wer a borower making requeist to a lenner.].

1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame f. 33 His face with fauour still was fraught, submissiue men to saue.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ff4^v With the most submissiue maner his behauiour could yeeld.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 89 Submissiue fall his princely feete before.

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. F Ile bring him on submissive knees.

1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 34 It might be added with a submissive Confidence, that [etc.].

1742 C. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems i. 30 An Heart resign'd, submissive, meek.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxvi. 462 His applications for peace became each hour more submissive.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 93 Feeble sovereigns and a submissive people could not advance into national greatness.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 579 His great object is to represent Godwine, no doubt with a good deal of exaggeration, as a model of submissive loyalty towards Eadward.

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 132/4 The moral superego takes charge and the ego is no longer coercive but submissive.

1971 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 37 295 The cult of ladyhood might have been something of a brainwash to keep women submissive.

2009 New Yorker 19 Oct. 52/3 Whenever one of the dogs..makes a submissive gesture with its head..the two animals are separated.

b. With to.

ΚΠ

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiii. 103 They all Do wrest euen Principalities submissiue to their Pall.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Nov. (1976) IX. 347 The Duke of York doth..carry himself wonderful submissive to the King.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 238 This Prince is not..so submissive [Fr. soûmis] to his Orders, as the other Viceroys.

1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iii. 56 His manly voice my horses will obey, And move submissive to his firmer sway.

1796 M. G. Lewis Monk II. vii. 263 The infernal spirits were submissive to his commands.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xii. 134 As little submissive to lawful authority as his forefather.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 170 Petulant and unresigned with his own, but..submissive to dictation when it came.

1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 458 Advising his quarrelsome sister..to be submissive to her husband.

1940 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 403/2 The subject, usually male, is submissive to the will of the partner.

1995 Daughters of Sarah Winter 22/1 She has nevertheless become a potent symbol..because of her refusal to be submissive to Adam in the Garden of Eden.

c. figurative. Of something material: non-resistant; malleable; passive, inert.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > plastic

malleablec1395

pliablec1475

submissivea1593

waxen1594

cereous1601

mouldable1626

shapeable1647

soluble1650

fictile1676

wax-like1748

plastic1791

a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) ii. sig. Div As a hote prowd horse..with his houes, Checkes the submissiue ground.

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. Ded. p. vii Lofty domineering Hills, that over-top'd the Submissive shady Dales.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 322 With Porrections or Surrenders of the Submissive Herba..or of the more Victorious Palm or Laurel.

1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 303 The sever'd Bars Submissive clink against their brazen Portals.

1854 E. Robinson Westm. Abbey III. 230 Wrought, probably by some ancient Byzantine artist,..in silver or other submissive metal.

1855 Househ. Words 10 Nov. 338/2 In a man's garden, he has only submissive material to work upon. If he object to weeds, they come out at his pull.

1939 D. Whipple Priory xxxix. 479 Miss Vanne dyed and double-dyed submissive heads of hair.

1972 R. E. Duncan Poems Margins Thom Gunn's Moly (Author's typescript ed.) 66 The damp submissive grass now stirs from sleep.

2005 N.Y. Times 20 Mar. iv. 13/5 A whopping 15 percent..of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert,..are active, giving women a significant increase in gene expression over men.

d. In (sadomasochistic) sexual activity: designating the person or role characterized by submission. Contrasted with dominant adj. and n. Additions.

ΚΠ

1969 M. Peckham Art & Pornogr. iii. viii. 220 In heterosexual sado-masochism masculinity and femininity are convenient signs for categorizing the aggressive and submissive roles.

1987 Jrnl. Sex Res. 23 53 My conclusions were based upon a handful of interviews with submissive men and with prostitutes specializing in ‘female domination’.

1994 J. Trebilcot Dyke Ideas 122 Although some lesbians see to it that in virtually all their relationships they are dominant and some lesbians prefer always to be submissive.

2006 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 3 Sept. 52 During this kind of sex play one person is dominant and gives orders or performs tasks on the submissive partner.

2. Of the voice: low, subdued. Cf. submiss adj. 2. Now rare.In some quots. not readily distinguishable from sense A. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > spoken in an undertone

submiss1585

submissive1632

summiss1742

inward1774

sotto voce1809

undertoned1860

subvocalized1864

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > pleasant > soft or gentle voice

stillc1000

smalla1325

lowc1400

submiss1585

feigning1600

submissive1632

summiss1742

submitted1806

cushioned1909

1632 P. Holland in tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia sig. ¶¶ 8 Give your poore vassall leave to answer in the submissive voice of a loyall subject.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love vi. 338 With a Voice clear and yet submissive, suitable to his Royal Ancestors, and his own Meanness.

1798 European Mag. & London Rev. June 372/2 I ventured, in a low and submissive voice, to add, that alterations were dangerous.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 356 ‘I have access to all my lord's papers, Mr. Haredale,’ he said, in a submissive voice.

1900 Vassar Misc. (Vassar Coll., N.Y.) 29 459 ‘Oh, hello,’ she said in a subdued, submissive voice, the exact opposite of her usually buoyant tones.

3. Of behaviour, etc.: restrained; moderate. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective]

methelyeOE

i-meteOE

methefulOE

attempre1297

measurablec1330

temprea1340

temperatec1380

temperantc1384

attemperatec1386

attemperelc1386

chastea1400

mannered1435

measureda1450

moderatea1450

well-measuredc1450

attempered1474

modest1548

sober1552

measurely1570

temperable1619

contemperate1647

submissive1753

managed1770

self-contained1838

inexplosive1867

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. iii. li. 346 If we consider what is due to health,..to moderate passions, submissive appetites.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. ii. xi. 93 An Esquire,..is a gentleman of an easy submissive temper, of moderated appetites, and patient of injuries.

1943 K. Woods tr. M. Haedrich Barrack 3, Room 12 86 When we were waiting for luncheon, our shoulders were beaten under a frozen downpour of rain. We ate with a submissive appetite.

B. n.

1. A person or animal characterized by submissive behaviour; a person who yields to power or authority. Also (with the and plural agreement): submissive people as a class.

ΚΠ

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 101 Artists, that shall undertake to instruct the diffident, the submissive, and the bashful, how to perform the whole gamut of oratorical and risible musick.

1858 J. Freeman Reply to Memorandum East-India Company 20 The ‘poor submissives’ would begin to breathe freely, and rise in the social state.

1883 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 8 Nov. Chatto's family are among the submissives.

1913 R. S. Bennett Patriotism 62 Another apparent contradiction that the humble and the submissive are the powerful.

1932 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 44 772 (list) Participation in games at every opportunity between 7-12 yr. of age (10 submissives, 12 introverts, 18 ascendants, 20 extraverts).

1990 Mammalian Species No. 358. 4/1 Tail-wagging of submissives, typical of other canid species, does not occur in raccoon dogs.

2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. 18 The view on the Irish is that we take the medicine without kicking up (although opinions differ on whether this is because we are stoics or submissives).

2. A person who plays the submissive role in (sadomasochistic) sexual activity. Cf. sense A. 1d, sub n.¹¹

ΚΠ

1974 M. M. Hunt Sexual Behavior in 1970s vi. 301 Europe's premiere dominatrix seeking connections, generous male submissives and aggressive gals for gainful exchange.

1978 L. Kramer Faggots 288 Who is the Master, who is the Slave, which one the Top Man, which one the Bottom, who the Dominant, who the Submissive, who the S and who the M, and which one's got the balls!?

1992 Details Oct. 131/2 Dominants and submissives are particularly put out by the notion that they would abduct strangers off the street and force them to take part in their perverse activities.

2008 A. Lister Swingers: Female Confidential 151 She was a bisexual submissive and pretty enough to be memorable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	submissive
释义	submissiveadj.n. Brit. /səbˈmɪsɪv/, U.S. /səbˈmɪsɪv/ Forms: 1500s–1700s submissiue, 1600s– submissive. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin submiss- , submittere , -ive suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin submiss-, past participial stem of submittere submit v. + -ive suffix. Compare post-classical Latin submissivus (1606 or earlier), Italian †sommessivo (15th cent.). Compare slightly earlier submiss adj. A. adj. 1. a. Of a person, action, attribute, etc.: characterized by or displaying submission; yielding to power or authority; humble, obedient. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective] go-by-ground?a1300 thrall1398 abjectc1430 manly?c1430 servicious1440 serviceable1483 servile1537 tame1563 slavish1565 demiss1572 submissive1572 cringing1579 fawning1585 incrouching?1593 vassal1594 scraping1599 obsequious1602 spaniel1606 observing1609 deprostrate1610 supplea1616 vernile1623 shrugging1629 wormy1640 compliable1641 thrall-like1641 obeisant1642 inservient1646 truckling1656 cringeling1693 benecking1705 subservient1714 footman-like1776 bingeing1805 sidling1821 toadying1863 crawlsome1904 toadyish1909 crawling1941 ass-kissing1942 society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [adjective] tholemodec1000 bowinga1340 subjectc1384 enclinant1400 yoldena1413 subjective1417 prostratec1425 obtemperate?a1475 subjected1550 subject-like1553 submiss1570 submissive1572 yielding1578 obnoxious1591 subordinate1594 subjectly1596 yieldable1603 dejective1611 passive1616 awebound1631 succumbent1647 resigning1648 complaisant1676 ovine1676 1572 [implied in: D. Fergusson Serm. sig. C. ij.^v He speiks als submissiuely as it wer a borower making requeist to a lenner.]. 1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame f. 33 His face with fauour still was fraught, submissiue men to saue. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ff4^v With the most submissiue maner his behauiour could yeeld. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 89 Submissiue fall his princely feete before. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. F Ile bring him on submissive knees. 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 34 It might be added with a submissive Confidence, that [etc.]. 1742 C. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems i. 30 An Heart resign'd, submissive, meek. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxvi. 462 His applications for peace became each hour more submissive. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 93 Feeble sovereigns and a submissive people could not advance into national greatness. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 579 His great object is to represent Godwine, no doubt with a good deal of exaggeration, as a model of submissive loyalty towards Eadward. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 132/4 The moral superego takes charge and the ego is no longer coercive but submissive. 1971 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 37 295 The cult of ladyhood might have been something of a brainwash to keep women submissive. 2009 New Yorker 19 Oct. 52/3 Whenever one of the dogs..makes a submissive gesture with its head..the two animals are separated. b. With to. ΚΠ 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiii. 103 They all Do wrest euen Principalities submissiue to their Pall. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Nov. (1976) IX. 347 The Duke of York doth..carry himself wonderful submissive to the King. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 238 This Prince is not..so submissive [Fr. soûmis] to his Orders, as the other Viceroys. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iii. 56 His manly voice my horses will obey, And move submissive to his firmer sway. 1796 M. G. Lewis Monk II. vii. 263 The infernal spirits were submissive to his commands. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xii. 134 As little submissive to lawful authority as his forefather. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 170 Petulant and unresigned with his own, but..submissive to dictation when it came. 1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 458 Advising his quarrelsome sister..to be submissive to her husband. 1940 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 403/2 The subject, usually male, is submissive to the will of the partner. 1995 Daughters of Sarah Winter 22/1 She has nevertheless become a potent symbol..because of her refusal to be submissive to Adam in the Garden of Eden. c. figurative. Of something material: non-resistant; malleable; passive, inert. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > plastic malleablec1395 pliablec1475 submissivea1593 waxen1594 cereous1601 mouldable1626 shapeable1647 soluble1650 fictile1676 wax-like1748 plastic1791 a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) ii. sig. Div As a hote prowd horse..with his houes, Checkes the submissiue ground. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. Ded. p. vii Lofty domineering Hills, that over-top'd the Submissive shady Dales. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 322 With Porrections or Surrenders of the Submissive Herba..or of the more Victorious Palm or Laurel. 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 303 The sever'd Bars Submissive clink against their brazen Portals. 1854 E. Robinson Westm. Abbey III. 230 Wrought, probably by some ancient Byzantine artist,..in silver or other submissive metal. 1855 Househ. Words 10 Nov. 338/2 In a man's garden, he has only submissive material to work upon. If he object to weeds, they come out at his pull. 1939 D. Whipple Priory xxxix. 479 Miss Vanne dyed and double-dyed submissive heads of hair. 1972 R. E. Duncan Poems Margins Thom Gunn's Moly (Author's typescript ed.) 66 The damp submissive grass now stirs from sleep. 2005 N.Y. Times 20 Mar. iv. 13/5 A whopping 15 percent..of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert,..are active, giving women a significant increase in gene expression over men. d. In (sadomasochistic) sexual activity: designating the person or role characterized by submission. Contrasted with dominant adj. and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1969 M. Peckham Art & Pornogr. iii. viii. 220 In heterosexual sado-masochism masculinity and femininity are convenient signs for categorizing the aggressive and submissive roles. 1987 Jrnl. Sex Res. 23 53 My conclusions were based upon a handful of interviews with submissive men and with prostitutes specializing in ‘female domination’. 1994 J. Trebilcot Dyke Ideas 122 Although some lesbians see to it that in virtually all their relationships they are dominant and some lesbians prefer always to be submissive. 2006 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 3 Sept. 52 During this kind of sex play one person is dominant and gives orders or performs tasks on the submissive partner. 2. Of the voice: low, subdued. Cf. submiss adj. 2. Now rare.In some quots. not readily distinguishable from sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > spoken in an undertone submiss1585 submissive1632 summiss1742 inward1774 sotto voce1809 undertoned1860 subvocalized1864 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > pleasant > soft or gentle voice stillc1000 smalla1325 lowc1400 submiss1585 feigning1600 submissive1632 summiss1742 submitted1806 cushioned1909 1632 P. Holland in tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia sig. ¶¶ 8 Give your poore vassall leave to answer in the submissive voice of a loyall subject. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love vi. 338 With a Voice clear and yet submissive, suitable to his Royal Ancestors, and his own Meanness. 1798 European Mag. & London Rev. June 372/2 I ventured, in a low and submissive voice, to add, that alterations were dangerous. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 356 ‘I have access to all my lord's papers, Mr. Haredale,’ he said, in a submissive voice. 1900 Vassar Misc. (Vassar Coll., N.Y.) 29 459 ‘Oh, hello,’ she said in a subdued, submissive voice, the exact opposite of her usually buoyant tones. 3. Of behaviour, etc.: restrained; moderate. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] methelyeOE i-meteOE methefulOE attempre1297 measurablec1330 temprea1340 temperatec1380 temperantc1384 attemperatec1386 attemperelc1386 chastea1400 mannered1435 measureda1450 moderatea1450 well-measuredc1450 attempered1474 modest1548 sober1552 measurely1570 temperable1619 contemperate1647 submissive1753 managed1770 self-contained1838 inexplosive1867 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. iii. li. 346 If we consider what is due to health,..to moderate passions, submissive appetites. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. ii. xi. 93 An Esquire,..is a gentleman of an easy submissive temper, of moderated appetites, and patient of injuries. 1943 K. Woods tr. M. Haedrich Barrack 3, Room 12 86 When we were waiting for luncheon, our shoulders were beaten under a frozen downpour of rain. We ate with a submissive appetite. B. n. 1. A person or animal characterized by submissive behaviour; a person who yields to power or authority. Also (with the and plural agreement): submissive people as a class. ΚΠ a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 101 Artists, that shall undertake to instruct the diffident, the submissive, and the bashful, how to perform the whole gamut of oratorical and risible musick. 1858 J. Freeman Reply to Memorandum East-India Company 20 The ‘poor submissives’ would begin to breathe freely, and rise in the social state. 1883 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 8 Nov. Chatto's family are among the submissives. 1913 R. S. Bennett Patriotism 62 Another apparent contradiction that the humble and the submissive are the powerful. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 44 772 (list) Participation in games at every opportunity between 7-12 yr. of age (10 submissives, 12 introverts, 18 ascendants, 20 extraverts). 1990 Mammalian Species No. 358. 4/1 Tail-wagging of submissives, typical of other canid species, does not occur in raccoon dogs. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. 18 The view on the Irish is that we take the medicine without kicking up (although opinions differ on whether this is because we are stoics or submissives). 2. A person who plays the submissive role in (sadomasochistic) sexual activity. Cf. sense A. 1d, sub n.¹¹ ΚΠ 1974 M. M. Hunt Sexual Behavior in 1970s vi. 301 Europe's premiere dominatrix seeking connections, generous male submissives and aggressive gals for gainful exchange. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 288 Who is the Master, who is the Slave, which one the Top Man, which one the Bottom, who the Dominant, who the Submissive, who the S and who the M, and which one's got the balls!? 1992 Details Oct. 131/2 Dominants and submissives are particularly put out by the notion that they would abduct strangers off the street and force them to take part in their perverse activities. 2008 A. Lister Swingers: Female Confidential 151 She was a bisexual submissive and pretty enough to be memorable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1572
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