Words and phrases that have a meaning related to submissive: (145 results)
Antonyms:
domineering
Often used in the same context:
subservient, docile, servile, obedient, meek, domineering, acquiescent, bossy, incommunicative, assertive, sexless, unwomanly, sluttish, patriarchal, lustful, chivalrous, hypermasculine, masculine, subjugated, manipulative, timorous, timid, shrewish, demure, chauvinist, unassertive, acceptant, unaffectionate, unloving, tyrannical, truculent, disobedient, male chauvinist, feminine, affectionate, resentful, masculinized, matriarchal, unfeminine, supine, rageful, dictatorial, effeminate, patriarchic, sexualized, emasculated, sullen, vengeful, unconfident, haughty, unfeeling, dutiful, nurturant, brutish, pliant, spinsterish, quarrelsome, overbearing, licentious, promiscuous, subordinate, uxorious, prudish, untrusting, brusk, obstinate, judgmental, motherly, antipathetic, hypersexual, extraverted, fascistic, obsequious, feckless, impotent, irresolute, uncompassionate, disrespectable, arrogant, possessive, highborn, harpy, kittenish, flighty, passive, amoral, repressed, passionless, priggish, empathetic, whorish, duplicitous, kinkier, pushy, uptightness, companionate, unsympathetic, egoistical, polygynous, spineless, unexpressive, mousy, effacing, reticent, defiant, trustful, despondent, apathetic, apprehensive, deferential, uncomplaining, diffident, distraught, extroverted, flirtatious
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Also try:break, break in, compliant, cringing, docility, groveling, grovelling, insubordinate, meek, meekly, meekness, obedience, obeisance, servile, slavish, spiritless, submission, subordinate, subservient, unservile, unsubmissive, uxorious, wormlike, wormy
— Nouns for submissive: role, behavior, attitude, wife, woman, spirit, posture, manner, obedience, people, person, more...
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