submissive

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination (Freq. 4)
- submissive servants
- a submissive reply
- replacing troublemakers with more submissive people
• Ant:
domineering
• Similar to:
abject, bowed, bowing, meek, spiritless,
spiritless, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy,
dominated, henpecked
• See Also:
humble, obedient, subordinate, unassertive
• Derivationally related forms:
submissiveness, submit
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
• Syn:
slavish, subservient
• Similar to:
servile
• Derivationally related forms:
submissiveness, submit, subservientness (for: subservient), subservience (for: subservient)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  slavish, subservient