Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2025

Submissiveness:

Vocabulary.com:

When you are submissive, you submit to someone else's will, which literally, you put your own desires lower than theirs. You can see this in the Latin root of submit, submittere, which is formed by sub- "under" + mittere "send, put."

Definitions of submissive
  1. adjective
     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”
    synonyms:
    unassertive
    inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence
    abject
    showing humiliation or submissiveness
    bowed, bowing
    showing an excessively deferential manner
    meek, spiritless
    evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant
    cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy
    totally submissive
    dominated, henpecked
    harassed by persistent nagging
    obedient
    dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
    humble
    marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
    subordinate
    subject or submissive to authority or the control of another

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