Submissive definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SUBMISS'IVE, a. Yielding to ... s inferiority; testifying one's submission. Her at his feet submissive in distress, He thus with peaceful words uprais'd. WordNet ... to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people" [ant: domineering] 2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to ...
... men. Numbers 12. 2. Appropriately,humble, in an evangelical sense; submissive to the divine will; not proud, self-sufficient or refractory ... syn: meek, tame] 3: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of ... looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient" [syn: meek, spiritless] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology ... and without resentment ; mild 2. deficient in spirit and courage ; submissive 3. not violent or strong ; moderate • meekly adverb • meekness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 humble and submissive; suffering injury etc. tamely. 2 piously gentle in nature. Derivatives ... patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. --Num. xii. ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OBE'DIENT, a. [L. obediens.] Submissive to authority; yielding compliance with commands, orders or injunctions; performing ... from present participle of oboedire to obey Date: 13th century submissive to the restraint or command of authority ; willing to obey • obediently adverb Synonyms: obedient, docile, tractable, amenable mean submissive to the will of another. obedient implies compliance with the ... obeying or ready to obey. 2 (often foll. by to) submissive to another's will; dutiful (obedient to the law). Derivatives ... Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command. And floating straight, obedient to ... wait the chief's command. --Pope. Syn: Dutiful; respectful; compliant; submissive. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary A person or animal who ...
... easily bent. 2 compliant; avoiding overt resistance; artfully or servilely submissive. --v.tr. & intr. make or become supple. Derivatives: suppleness n ... Etymology: ME f. OF souple ult. f. L supplex supplicis submissive Webster's 1913 Dictionary Supple Sup"ple, a. [OE. souple ... as, supple joints; supple fingers. 2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not ... she suppled and did steep. --Spenser. 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. A mother persisting till she had bent her ... flexile, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent, elastic. 2. Yielding, compliant, submissive, humble, soft. 3. Servile, obsequious, cringing, slavish, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic ... sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, springy, stealthy, strategic, stretch, stretchy, submissive, subtile, subtle, susceptible, tactical, temporizing, timeserving, toadying, tractable, tractile, ...
Submissiveness definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SUBMISS'IVENESS, n. A submissive temper or disposition. 1. Humbleness; acknowledgment of inferiority. 2. Confession ... or a superior force etc. Merriam Webster's noun see submissive Webster's 1913 Dictionary Submissive Sub*mis"sive, a. 1. Inclined or ready to submit ... 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; ...
... no more a servile land. Pope. 3. Cringing; fawning; meanly submissive; as servile flattery. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile ... a slave or a menial position 2. meanly or cravenly submissive ; abject Synonyms: see subservient • servilely adverb • servileness noun • servility noun ... a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile ... sycophantic, abject, low, beggarly, sneaking, base-minded, low-minded, meanly submissive. Moby Thesaurus abject, abused, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, apple-polishing, ass ... secondary, serving, servitorial, slavish, slimy, smarmy, sordid, sub, subaltern, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, supine, sycophantic, sycophantish, third rank, third string, ...
... his supervisor" [syn: deferentially, submissively] Merriam Webster's adverb see submissive Webster's 1913 Dictionary Submissive Sub*mis"sive, a. 1. Inclined or ready to submit ... 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 ... Sub*mis"sive*ness, n. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see submissive
... Dictionary RESIGNED, pp. 1. Given up; surrendered; yielded. 2. a. Submissive to the will of God. Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. (often foll. by to) having resigned oneself; submissive, acquiescent. Derivatives: resignedly adv. resignedness n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... s 1913 Dictionary Resigned Re*signed" (r?-z?nd"), a. Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet ... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Surrendered, given up. 2. Submissive, unresisting, complying, yielding, uncomplaining, patient, humble, meek, lowly. Moby Thesaurus ... souci, satisfied, servile, slack, sluggish, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stupefied, submissive, subservient, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, supine, torpid, unassertive, uncaring, uncomplaining, unconcerned ...
... duties or obligations required by law, justice or propriety; obedient; submissive to natural or legal superiors; respectful; as a dutiful son ... who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or ... respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection. Syn: Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive; docile; respectful; compliant. -- Du"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Du"ti ... v Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Obedient, submissive, duteous. 2. Reverential, respectful, deferential. Moby Thesaurus Christian, Christianlike, Christianly ... punctual, regardful, reliable, religious, respectful, responsible, reverent, reverential, scrupulous, solemn, submissive, theistic, true, venerational, venerative, willing, worshipful, yielding
... in solving the crime" [syn: implemental, instrumental, subservient] 3: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her ... to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient" [syn: slavish, subservient, submissive] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin subservient-, subserviens, present participle ... capacity ; subordinate 2. serving to promote some end 3. obsequiously submissive ; truckling • subserviently adverb Synonyms: subservient, servile, slavish, obsequious mean showing ... second string, secondary, serviceable, servile, serving, slavish, sub, subaltern, subject, submissive, subordinate, subsidiary, supine, third rank, third string, tributary, truckling, unassertive ...
... mischief. 7. To subdue; to cause to yield; to make submissive; as, to bend a man to our will. 8. In ... or determine.[See Bent on.] 4. To bow or be submissive. Isaiah 60. BEND,n. A curve; a crook; a turn ... interest ; apply < bent himself to the task > 6. to make submissive ; subdue intransitive verb 1. to curve out of a straight ... their will. --Pope. 4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. ``Except she bend her humor.'' --Shak. 5. (Naut ... set. 5. Subdue, cause to yield, bring to submission, make submissive, persuade, influence, mould, dispose, bias. 6. ( Naut. ) Fasten, make fast ...
... obsequor, to follow; ob and sequor.] 1. Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires ... quieux, See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequy.] 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires ... a. Fawning, sycophantic, deferential, flattering, cringing, servile, slavish, supple, meanly submissive. Moby Thesaurus abject, adulatory, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing ... smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, submissive, subservient, sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous ...
... blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original" 2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her ... to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient" [syn: slavish, subservient, submissive] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1565 1. a. of or ... ordered around, overborne, regimented, rough, rugged, servile, spineless, strenuous, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, trampled, tyrannized, uninspired, unmanned, unoriginal, wretched