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Meaning of word submissive from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination.

Example : Submissive servants.
A submissive reply.
Replacing troublemakers with more submissive people.

Tending to domineer.

Meaning : Abjectly submissive. Characteristic of a slave or servant.

Example : Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses.
She has become submissive and subservient.

Synonyms : slavish, subservient

blow up (verb)
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.

guff (noun)
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).

precursor (noun)
A substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction).

demolish (verb)
Destroy completely.

with child (adjective)
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.

most (adjective)
(superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number.

ordnance store (noun)
Military supplies.

cockroach (noun)
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects. Some are domestic pests.

telescope (verb)
Crush together or collapse.

dispose (verb)
Give, sell, or transfer to another.

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