Synonyms of the word

submissive

• n. one who submits.
• adj. Meekly obedient or passive.

abject

• adj. (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
• adj. Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
• adj. Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a…
• adj. Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
• n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

bowed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bow.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of bow.
• adj. Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments), e.g. a bowed instrument is played with a bow.

bowing

• v. present participle of bow (bend).
• n. The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
• n. A bending.
• n. A technique for bowing a musical instrument, such as a violin.

cringing

• v. present participle of cringe.
• n. Act of one who cringes.

dominated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dominate.

groveling

• v. (US) present participle of grovel.
• n. The act of one who grovels.

grovelling

• v. (Britain) present participle of grovel.
• n. The act of one who grovels.

henpecked

• adj. (particularly of husbands or boyfriends) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife or…

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

meek

• adj. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
• adj. Submissive, dispirited.
• v. (US) (of horses) To tame; to break.

obedient

• adj. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.

servile

• adj. of or pertaining to a slave.
• adj. submissive or slavish.
• adj. (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
• adj. (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
• n. (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.

slavish

• adj. in the manner of a slave; abject.

spiritless

• adj. Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.

subordinate

• adj. Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
• adj. Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
• adj. (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause.
• n. (countable) One who is subordinate.
• v. (transitive) To make subservient.
• v. (transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
• v. (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.

subservient

• adj. Useful in an inferior capacity.
• adj. Obsequiously submissive.

unassertive

• adj. Not assertive.

wormlike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of a worm.
• adj. (chemistry, of the molecules of a polymer) Having a smoothly curved form when heated.

wormy

• adj. Of or like a worm or worms.
• adj. Infested with worms.