submissive

Adjective

 * 1)  obedient or passive.
 * 2) * 1913, Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology, Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92:
 * If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
 * If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.

Antonyms

 * , (ruling)
 * , (ignoring)

Derived terms

 * (adverb)
 * (noun)

Translations

 * Arabic: خَاضِع
 * Azerbaijani: müti
 * Belarusian: пако́рлівы
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , submisivní
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: cedema, submetiĝema
 * Faroese: eftirgevin, undirbrotligur, eyðmjúkur, lýðin
 * Finnish:, nöyrästi myöntyvä,
 * French:
 * German:, unterwürfig, , , ,
 * Hebrew: כָּנוּעַ
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 服従的,
 * Latin: obnoxius, summissus
 * Macedonian: покорен
 * Manx: beasagh
 * Maori: iro, iroiro
 * Navajo: hoołtsoodii
 * Old English: bēogol
 * Old Swedish: lȳdhoger, undirdānogher, undirgivin
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, submissivo
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: покоран
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: submisívny
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: boyun eğen,, , teslîmiyetçi, uysallıkla
 * Ukrainian: покірний
 * Upper Sorbian: pokorny, podwólny
 * Yiddish: ניכנעדיק, אונטערגעוואָרפֿן

Noun

 * 1)  One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices.
 * 2)  One who submits.

Translations

 * Esperanto: subulo
 * French:
 * Hebrew: כָּנוּעַ
 * Spanish:, sumisa
 * Yiddish: ניכנע, אונטערגעוואָרפֿענער, אונטערגעוואָרפֿענע