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Adjective submissive has 3 senses
- submissive - 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"
Antonyms: domineering, authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing, autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory, blustery, bullying, cavalier, high-handed, heavy-handed, roughshod, imperious, masterful, oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous
- submissive - willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
Antonym: insubordinate (indirect, via subordinate)
- slavish, subservient, submissive - 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"
Antonyms: unservile, unsubmissive (indirect, via servile)
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