SUBMISSIVE Synonyms

• willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

• ready and willing to be taught

• easily handled or managed

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

• very docile

• evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant

• dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority

• willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest

• inclined to comply

• showing deference

• willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect

• marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful

• low or inferior in station or quality

• used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• cause to be unpretentious

• cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

• easily influenced

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

• attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

• lacking in energy or will

• expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

• peacefully resistant in response to injustice

• capable of being influenced or formed

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

• submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

• relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants

• very restrained or quiet

• brought from wildness into a domesticated state

• flat and uninspiring

• very docile

• correct by punishment or discipline

• make less strong or intense; soften

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

• easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

• responsive to suggestions and influences

• inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence

• a verbal act of admitting defeat

• the act of conceding or yielding

• inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

• lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

• tending to give in or surrender or agree

• leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

• give up or retire from a position

• part with a possession or right

• accept as inevitable

• blindly imitative

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant