English-Thai Dictionary

submissive

ADJ อ่อนน้อม  ว่าง่าย  ยอม ทำตาม  meek obedient unresisting aon-nam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUBMISSIVE

a.Yielding to the will or power of another; obedient. 1. Humble; acknowledging one's inferiority; testifying one's submission.
Her at his feet submissive in distress,
He thus with peaceful words uprais'd.

 

SUBMISSIVELY

adv. With submission; with acknowledgment of inferiority; humbly. The goddess,
Soft in her tone, submissively replies.

 

SUBMISSIVENESS

n.A submissive temper or disposition. 1. Humbleness; acknowledgment of inferiority.
2. Confession of fault.
Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SUBMISSIVE

SUBMISSIVE Sub *mis "sive, a.

 

1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton.

 

2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

 

Syn. -- Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. -- Sub *mis "sive *ly, adv. -- Sub *mis "sive *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

submissive

sub mis sive |səbˈmisiv səbˈmɪsɪv | ▶adjective ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive. DERIVATIVES sub mis sive ly adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from submission, on the pattern of pairs such as remission, remissive .

 

submissiveness

sub mis sive ness |səbˈmisivnis | ▶noun the quality of being submissive: he didn't confuse respect with submissiveness.

 

Oxford Dictionary

submissive

sub |mis ¦sive |səbˈmɪsɪv | ▶adjective ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive: a submissive, almost sheeplike people. DERIVATIVES submissively adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from submission, on the pattern of pairs such as remission, remissive .

 

submissiveness

sub |mis ¦sive |ness |səbˈmɪsɪvnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality of being submissive: he didn't confuse respect with submissiveness.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

submissive

submissive adjective she's far from being a submissive woman: compliant, yielding, acquiescent, unassertive, passive, obedient, biddable, dutiful, docile, pliant; informal under someone's thumb.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

submissive

submissive adjective Mary was far from being a timidly submissive woman: compliant, yielding, malleable, acquiescent, accommodating, amenable, tractable, manageable, unassertive, non-resisting, passive, obedient, biddable, dutiful, duteous, docile, ductile, pliant, meek, timid, mild, patient, resigned, forbearing, subdued, humble, self-effacing, spiritless, deferential, obsequious, servile, slavish, self-abasing, spineless, grovelling, lamblike, supine; informal bootlicking, under someone's thumb; archaic resistless; rare longanimous. ANTONYMS domineering, obstinate, intractable.

 

submissiveness

submissiveness noun he could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness: compliance, submission, subservience, yielding, acquiescence, deference, assent, meekness, obedience, dutifulness, duteousness, biddableness, malleability, tractableness, tractability, tameness, docility, passiveness, passivity, humility, resignation, forbearance; obsequiousness, sycophancy, servility, self-abasement; informal bootlicking. ANTONYMS assertiveness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

submissive

sub mis sive /səbmɪ́sɪv /形容詞 «…に » 従順な, 服従的な (passive ) «to » (↔assertive ).～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞