submissive
英[səb'mɪsɪv]
美[səb'mɪsɪv]
英英释意
- 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"
- 2. willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
- 3. 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"