0 allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals: --
1 showing a willingness to be controlled by other people: --
a submissive gesture
A string of epithets usually followed: children were timid, submissive, barely awake, lacking motivation, poorly nourished.
In such literature there is little place for women, who with few exceptions are no more than submissive spouses, rarely seen and never heard.
When the husband dies, his power is far from diminished, because the submissive wife continues to conduct her life according to his expectations.
By romanticising the past, older people are urging the younger generation back to a submissive position.
The submissive subgraph is not deleted from the chromosome, but is ignored in most calculations.
On the average, women tend to adopt a more socially oriented and submissive pattern of behavior than men, who are predominantly taskoriented and assertive.
Discomfort can be relieved by submissive gestures, such as eye or gaze aversion.
The morals and virtues that it ostensibly taught lauded behaviour that was submissive, particularly on the part of women and the young.
