submissiveadjective
uk/səbˈmɪs.ɪv/us/səbˈmɪs.ɪv/A submissive person allows themselves to be controlled by other people:
He was looking for a quiet, submissive wife who would obey his every word.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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submissively
adverb uk/səbˈmɪs.ɪv.li/us/səbˈmɪs.ɪv.li/
submissiveness
noun [ U ] uk/səbˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/us/səbˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/