| 单词 | submissive |
| 释义 | submissive (once / 1423 pages) adj When animals live in packs, one animal is usually the dominant leader, while the others fall into more submissive roles. To be submissive is to obey or yield to someone else. 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." WORD FAMILYsubmissive: submissively, submissiveness, unsubmissive+/resubmit: resubmits, resubmitted, resubmitting/submission: submissions/submit: resubmit, submission, submissive, submits, submitted, submitter, submitting/submitter: submitters USAGE EXAMPLESLeia, it’s worth remembering, murders Jabba by choking him with the very chains that were supposed to keep her submissive. Time(Dec 27, 2016) These women are not in any way submissive or passive. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) “The Port Authority needs to work with the governors, but it should not be submissive to either one of them.” New York Times(Dec 06, 2016) 1adj 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 Syn|Ant unassertive inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence abjectshowing humiliation or submissiveness bowed, bowingshowing an excessively deferential manner meek, spiritlessevidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormytotally submissive dominated, henpeckedharassed by persistent nagging obedientdutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority humblemarked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful subordinatesubject or submissive to authority or the control of another domineering tending to domineer authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearingexpecting unquestioning obedience autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptoryoffensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power blustery, bullyingnoisily domineering; tending to browbeat others cavalier, high-handedgiven to haughty disregard of others heavy-handed, roughshodunjustly domineering oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannousmarked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior immodesthaving or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc 2adj abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant she has become submissive and subservient Syn slavish, subservient servile submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior |
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