Word Meanings - SUBMISSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton. 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as,

Additional info about word: SUBMISSIVE

1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton. 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior. Syn. -- Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. -- Sub*mis"sive*ly, adv. -- Sub*mis"sive*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBMISSIVE)

• Dutiful
• Obedient
• submissive
• respectful
• docile
• deferential
• duteous
• Humble
• Low
• lowly
• obscure
• meek
• modest
• unassuming
• unpretending
• Loyal
• Submissive
• obedient
• faithful
• allegiant
• true
• constant
• Meek
• Mild
• gentle
• yielding
• Obsequious
• servile
• cringing
• sycophantic
• flattering

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUBMISSIVE)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to SUBMISSIVE)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• ALLEGIANT
  Loyal. Shak.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DEFERENTIALLY
  With deference.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• DUTEOUS
  1. Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter. 2. Subservient; obsequious. Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. Shak. -- Du"te*ous*ly,
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• INOBEDIENT
  Not obedient; disobedient. Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His