adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If you constantly try to make someone happy, you end up becoming submissive , saying yes when you don't really mean it.
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My father was a violent, demanding man, who expected my mother to be completely submissive .
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The stereotype that foreign women are submissive is completely false.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, how much abuse must one endure to qualify as a truly submissive wife?
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Aware of a hex and sure of its power, the victim falls into learned helplessness and slides into submissive death.
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But what is required from a biblical standpoint for a wife to be considered submissive ?
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In general however, women were sent back to their music and their embroidery and were told to be submissive .
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Some children may be submissive to this approach while others fight back and will not have their willpower broken.
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What is produced is a herd of predominantly submissive and passive humans who are easily managed for the benefit of their overseers.