too willing to accept someone else's authority and to obey them without questioning anything they want you to do He expected his daughters to be meek and submissive. She followed him like a submissive child. opposite assertive
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adverb “You're right and I was wrong,” he said submissively.
noun [uncountable]See submissive in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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