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Adjectives (12)
submissive
adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
conformable
adj. quick to comply; "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare
deferential
adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
obedient
adj. submissive to or controlled by authority
resistless, supine, unresisting
adj. offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
willing, agreeable, amenable
adj. disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"
slavish, subservient
adj. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
Fuzzynyms (90)
docile
adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
submissive, conformable
adj. quick to comply; "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare
tractable
adj. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
willing, submissive, agreeable, amenable
adj. disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"
yielding, obedient
adj. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
yielding, obliging, complying
adj. (compliant)
manageable
adj. capable of being managed or controlled
manageable
adj. capable of being managed or controlled
docile, teachable
adj. ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
docile
adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
submissive
adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
tractable
adj. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
willing, submissive, agreeable, amenable
adj. disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"
yielding, obedient
adj. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
yielding, obliging, complying
adj. (compliant)
manageable
adj. capable of being managed or controlled
manageable
adj. capable of being managed or controlled
docile, teachable
adj. ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
dutiful, duteous, respectful
adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";
retiring, unassuming
adj. not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"
cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy
adj. totally submissive
lethargic, unenergetic
adj. deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"
listless, languid, languorous
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
complaisant, obliging
adj. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"
obedient
adj. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
manageable
adj. capable of being managed or controlled
willing
adj. disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers"
tractable
adj. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
submissive
adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
submissive, conformable
adj. quick to comply; "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare
yielding, obedient
adj. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
prepared, inclined, disposed, fain
adj. having made preparations; "prepared to take risks"
ductile, malleable
adj. easily influenced
favorable, favourable
adj. encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
good, beneficial, salutary
adj. tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air"
suitable
adj. worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"
docile
adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
accommodating, accommodative
adj. helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
placid, complacent, self-satisfied
adj. contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"
compliant, acquiescent, biddable
adj. willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"
obsequious, bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish
adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy
adj. totally submissive
Synonyms (24)
humble
adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
obedient
adj. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
subordinate
adj. subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
unassertive
adj. inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence; "a shy unassertive person"
compliant, acquiescent, biddable
adj. willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"
dutiful, duteous, respectful
adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";
low, broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated
adj. subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
mild, modest, meek
adj. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
yielding, obliging, complying
adj. (compliant)
nonresistant
adj. offering no resistance
obsequious
adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
slavelike
adj. suitable for a slave or servant
Antonyms (21)
domineering
adj. tending to domineer
peremptory, autocratic, magisterial, bossy, high-and-mighty
adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
disobedient
adj. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
insubordinate
adj. not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
disobedient
adj. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing
adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
swaggering, prideful, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, haughty, sniffy
adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
insubordinate
adj. not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
defiant
adj. boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"
submissive
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