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submissive 音标拼音: [səbm'ɪsɪv] a. 服从的,顺从的,柔顺的 服从的,顺从的,柔顺的 submissive adj 1: 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" [ ant: { domineering}] 2: 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" [ synonym: { slavish}, { subservient}, { submissive}] Submissive \ Sub* mis" sive\, a. 1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one' s inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. [ 1913 Webster] Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. [ 1913 Webster] With a submissive step I hasted down. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Sub* mis" sive* ly}, adv. -- { Sub* mis" sive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 171 Moby Thesaurus words for " submissive": abject, abused, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, amenable, approving, ass- kissing, assentatious, assenting, base, bendable, bending, biddable, bow, bring, browbeaten, brown- nosing, capitulate, cave, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conceding, concessive, conformable, conforming, consentient, consenting, content, defer, deferential, deliver, devoted, docile, domestic, domesticated, downtrod, downtrodden, ductile, duteous, dutiful, eager, elastic, endorsing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faithful, favorable, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, ground down, hand in, henpecked, humble, humble- minded, humble- spirited, humblehearted, impressible, impressionable, in leading strings, ingratiating, knuckle, knuckle under, law- abiding, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loyal, malleable, manageable, mean, meek, meek- minded, meek- spirited, meekhearted, menial, misused, moldable, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nothing loath, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, offer, on bended knee, oppressed, ordered around, other- directed, overborne, passive, permissive, plastic, pliable, pliant, poor in spirit, present, proffer, prompt, prostrate, ratifying, ready, receptive, reconciled, refer, regimented, resigned, responsive, sanctioning, send, sensitive, sequacious, servile, shapable, slavish, springy, subdued, submit, subservient, succumb, supine, supple, surrender, susceptible, sycophantic, tender, timid, toadying, tractable, tractile, trampled, truckling, tyrannized, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unmanned, unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding
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