Usually means: Yielding to authority or control.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word submissive:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. submissive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. submissive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. submissive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. submissive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. submissive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Submissive, submissive: Wordnik
  7. submissive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. submissive: Wiktionary
  9. submissive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. submissive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. submissive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. submissive: Dictionary.com
  13. submissive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Submissive (BDSM), Submissive (sexual), Submissive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Submissive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. submissive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. submissive: Rhymezone
  18. submissive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. submissive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. submissive: Free Dictionary
  21. submissive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. submissive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

(Note: See submissively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.
noun:  (BDSM) One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
noun:  (rare) One who submits.

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