Examples:
- submissive servants
- a submissive reply
- replacing troublemakers with more submissive people
Antonyms:domineering
Derivationally Related Form:submitsubmissiveness
Inherited Hypernyms:submissive
Similar to:abject bowed bowing cringing groveling grovelling wormlike wormy dominated henpecked meek spiritless
See also:humble obedient subordinate unassertive