submissive
US: /səbˈmɪsɪv/
UK: /səbmˈɪsɪv/
UK: /səbmˈɪsɪv/
English Vietnamese dictionary
submissive /səb'misiv/
- tính từ
- dễ phục tùng, dễ quy phục; dễ bảo, ngoan ngoãn
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
willing to obey sb whatever they want you to do: She followed him like a submissive child.
Antonym: ASSERTIVE
submissively adverb: 'You're right and I was wrong,' he said submissively.
submissiveness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 yielding, acquiescent, deferential, compliant, obedient, tractable, amenable, agreeable, accommodating, passive, unresisting, pliant, flexible, manageable, unassertive, docile, meek, timid, resigned, uncomplaining:
As a child she was very submissive but she rebelled in adolescence.
2 obsequious, abject, subservient, servile, humble, deferential, slavish, ingratiating, truckling, biddable, sycophantic, toadying, Colloq boot-licking, Taboo Slang brown-nosing, Brit arse-kissing, arse-licking, US ass-kissing, ass-licking:
She keeps a few submissive lackeys about to do her bidding.
Concise English dictionary
səb'mɪsɪv
adj.
+inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
+abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
