All submissive synonyms
sub·mis·sive
S s adj submissive
- domiciliary — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- amendable — to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- invertebrate — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- conformable — corresponding in character; similar
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
- fagged — to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.
- adjuvant — aiding or assisting
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- dutiful — performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty: a dutiful citizen; a dutiful child.
- cringing — servile; obsequious
- orderly — arranged or disposed in a neat, tidy manner or in a regular sequence: an orderly desk.
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- mopy — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- in-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- acquiescent — Someone who is acquiescent is ready to agree to do what someone wants, or to accept what they do.
- fawning — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- moldable — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- abject — You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
adjective submissive
- wormlike — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- nonresistant — not able, conditioned, or constructed to withstand the effect of something, as a disease, a specific change in temperature, or harsh treatment; susceptible to damage or ill effects.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- amoebalike — Having the characteristics of an amoeba.
- deludable — Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
- humouring — humor.
- longanimous — Long-suffering; patient; showing self-control and restraint.