submissive
IPA: sʌbmˈɪsɪv
noun
- (BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices.
- (rare) One who submits.
adjective
- Meekly obedient or passive.
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Examples of "submissive" in Sentences
- Conformists are submissive.
- He is the most submissive of the pair.
- He was submissive to the poppy's conditions.
- He is the submissive and weak one of the two.
- That they won’t see you so long as you remain submissive?
- She sat still, in submissive patience, her cheek pale with the working of a heart too big for that little body.
- Golfing sportsman said it best submissive is the way to go, they know what you want out of them, and are eager to please you.
- Refers to a submissive male cross-dresser or a male submissive who is panty trained even though he is not actually a transvestite.
- They also call a submissive wife a "cricket on the stove"; I just hope they're not lighting the burners to watch it jump -- no spousal abuse, please!
- Quiverfull and what could be called the submissive lifestyle are ultimately convictions of faith, and many women choose to follow them regardless of potential hardships.
- The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions.
- Saying that to be Christian women have to be submissive is like saying that Christians have to be anti-Semitic because the Gospel of Matthew villanizes Jews, without taking into account his audience or his purpose in writing.
- The creepy spectacle of watching one warrior after the next insist that we must risk other people's lives and bomb more people so that we don't feel girlish and scared and submissive is repugnant enough, in itself, to have to witness on a daily basis.