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Synonyms:
- willing, bowed, teachable, docile, resist, self-effacing, devoted, genuflecting, abject, henpecked, mannerly, agreeable, curtsying, cringing, inert, concurrent, proper, faithful, browbeaten, supple, complaisant, tractable, eager, complying, wormy, aping, enslaved, feudal, adherent, downtrodden, sheepish, acquiescing, susceptible, servile, conforming, deferent, supine, abashed, amenable, yielding, flexible, unfranchised, spiritless, menial, homely, instrumental, earnest, bowing, cooperative, gentle, supporting, placid, receptive, subservient, acquiescent, pliable, subjected, tame, contrite, compliant, enthralled, plain, manageable, inferior, subjugated, groveling, modest, good, subject, unobtrusive, passive, deferential, under, unpretentious, malleable, nonresistant, respectful, humble, regular, adaptable, unassuming, subordinate, conventional, ready, allegiant, ductile, mild, grovelling, conformable, dominated, slavish, inactive, constrained, idle, correct, wormlike, obedient, formal, resigned, dependent, adhering, law-abiding, consist, dutiful, apologetic, junior, legalistic, plebeian, biddable, implemental, assenting, plastic, kowtowing, attending, persuadable, loyal, congruous, customary, selfless, meek, calm, pliant, bound, traditional
Examples:
- - She was not only submissive, but even ardent. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- - But gently though Rachel spoke, Mary looked more rebellious than submissive. - "Rachel Gray", Julia Kavanagh
- - She looked so humble, and so submissive in her touching beauty, that the Knight's heart was melted, as by a sunbeam from happier days. - "Famous Stories Every Child Should Know", Various
Antonyms:
- opinionated, blustery, untoward, unservile, bullying, dictatorial, overbearing, authoritarian, insubordinate, nonconformist, obstreperous, ill-mannered, peremptory, domineering, mischievous, recalcitrant, contrary, resistant, bossy, high-and-mighty, obstinate, unmanageable, autocratic, inflexible, froward, stubborn, rude, unamenable, oppressive, heavy-handed, bad, defiant, resolute, naughty, dominating, wilful, peevish, tyrannical, uncontrollable, incompliant, balky, mutinous, unruly, insolent, self-willed, noncompliant, refractory, impolite, unyielding, disorderly, hardheaded, dissident, misbehaving, disrespectful, rebellious, cavalier, restive, undisciplined, magisterial, disobedient, willful, unsubmissive, roughshod, obdurate, errant, high-handed, wayward, pigheaded, intractable, wild, determined, impudent, headstrong, tyrannous, ill-bred, ungovernable, rebel, insurgent, perverse, dogged, firm, contumacious, mulish
