submissive

  • (a) 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
  • (s) 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
    slavish, subservient,

Synonyms

slavish subservient

Antonyms

domineering

See also

humble obedient subordinate unassertive

Words of close approximity

submission
submissively submissiveness