inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; submissive servants; a submissive reply; replacing troublemakers with more submissive people'
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; slavish devotion to her job ruled her life; a slavish yes-man to the party bosses- S.H.Adams; she has become submissive and subservient
[ Syn: slavish , subservient ]