submissive
pronunciation
How to pronounce submissive in British English:
UK [səbˈmɪsɪv]
How to pronounce submissive in American English:
US [səbˈmɪsɪv]
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- Adjective:
- inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
- willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
- abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
Word Origin
- submissive (adj.)
- 1580s, "inclined to submit, yielding to authority," from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.
Example
- 1. A submissive wife says yes to everything her husband says .
- 2. Vietnamese girls are seen in much of asia as the paradigm of the submissive foreign bride .
- 3. However it requires very sharp map awareness and more submissive hero positioning .
- 4. After the goldstone controversy he cannot afford to be perceived as weak and submissive .
- 5. And yes , absolutely , a person can be a true submissive and still assert her individuality and defend herself when she feels unjustly attacked or accused .