submissivesub‧mis‧sive /səbˈmɪsɪv/ adjective 
- If you constantly try to make someone happy, you end up becoming submissive, saying yes when you don't really mean it.
- My father was a violent, demanding man, who expected my mother to be completely submissive.
- The stereotype that foreign women are submissive is completely false.
- After all, how much abuse must one endure to qualify as a truly submissive wife?
- Aware of a hex and sure of its power, the victim falls into learned helplessness and slides into submissive death.
- But what is required from a biblical standpoint for a wife to be considered submissive?
- In general however, women were sent back to their music and their embroidery and were told to be submissive.
- Some children may be submissive to this approach while others fight back and will not have their willpower broken.
- What is produced is a herd of predominantly submissive and passive humans who are easily managed for the benefit of their overseers.
too willing to do what you are told to do► submissive always willing to do what someone tells you to do even if it is unpleasant or they ask you in an unpleasant way: · My father was a violent, demanding man, who expected my mother to be completely submissive.· If you constantly try to make someone happy, you end up becoming submissive, saying yes when you don't really mean it.
► yes-man informal someone who always agrees with and obeys their employer or leader etc: · It's no good applying for a job with him unless you're happy being a yes-man.· She packed the committees with yes-men and then did just what she liked.
► servile obeying someone too eagerly and showing them too much respect: · The driver asked in a servile tone for more instructions.· He was young and hard-working, though annoyingly servile.
► subservient someone who is subservient is always willing to do what people tell them to do and behaves as if they expect to be told what to do: · The waiter had an excessively subservient manner that made us very uncomfortable.subservient to: · What she hated about being a nurse was having to be so subservient to doctors.
► slavish: slavish obedience/compliance/conformity etc obeying much too easily without thinking or asking questions: · The women's slavish obedience disgusted me.· He was able to manipulate their slavish willingness to serve in the name of patriotism.
► compliant too obedient because you are used to obeying people or because you are afraid not to obey: · It's depressing to see an intelligent, spirited young woman like her turning into a meek and compliant wife.· Patients who are less compliant may be forced to take medication against their will.
► blind obedience when someone does whatever someone else tells them to do, without thinking for themselves about whether it is right or wrong: · With blind obedience, I allowed Victor to organize my life.
► lackey someone who is always too willing to do what someone else, especially someone in authority, tells them to do, even when this is wrong: · Many employees regarded Human Resources staff as little more than management lackeys.· Some poeple in the UK were worried that their country might be regarded as simply being a lackey of the US.
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In those days, women were expected to be quiet and submissive.—submissively adverb—submissiveness noun [uncountable]