different between submissive vs meeken
submissive
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /s?b?m?s?v/
Adjective
submissive (comparative more submissive, superlative most submissive)
- Meekly obedient or passive.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, G. Bell & sons, page 314:
- The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court.
- 1913, Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology, Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92:
- If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
- 2007, Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda, HSRC Press, page 269:
- Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, G. Bell & sons, page 314:
Synonyms
- biddable
- docile
- meek
- slavish
- timid
- obedient
- subservient
Antonyms
- dominant, domineering (ruling)
- defiant, rebellious (ignoring)
Derived terms
- submissively (adverb)
- submissiveness (noun)
Translations
Noun
submissive (plural submissives)
- (BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.
- (rare) One who submits.
Translations
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
submissive
- inflection of submissiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
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meeken
English
Etymology
From Middle English mekenen, meknen, equivalent to meek +? -en.
Verb
meeken (third-person singular simple present meekens, present participle meekening, simple past and past participle meekened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become meek or submissive.
- 1779, John Wesley, Collection of Psalms and Hymns. The Collection
- Tear each other's flesh no more,
But kindly think and speak the same;
All express the meekening power
And spirit Of the Lamb!
- Tear each other's flesh no more,
- 1779, John Wesley, Collection of Psalms and Hymns. The Collection
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