Usually means: Respectful submission or yielding behavior.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word deferential:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. deferential: Merriam-Webster
  2. deferential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deferential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deferential: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deferential: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deferential, deferential: Wordnik
  7. deferential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deferential: Wiktionary
  9. deferential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deferential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deferential: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deferential: Dictionary.com
  13. deferential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deferential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deferential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deferential: Rhymezone
  17. Deferential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deferential: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. deferential: FreeDictionary.org
  20. deferential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. deferential: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deferential: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deferential: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. deferential: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. deferential: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Respectful and considerate; showing deference.
adjective:  Based on deference; based on the doctrine, ideology, or wishes of others rather than one's own conclusions.
adjective:  (anatomy, not comparable) Of, or relating to the vas deferens.

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