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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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quiescent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin qui?sc?ns (“resting, reposing, sleeping”), present participle of qui?scere, from qui?s (“rest, repose, quiet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kwa??.?sn?t/, /?kwi?.?sn?t/
- Hyphenation: qui?es?cent
Adjective
quiescent (comparative more quiescent, superlative most quiescent)
- Inactive, quiet, at rest.
- 1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns”, in John Wilson; Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet. The Landscapes from Paintings made Expressly for the Work, by D[avid] O[ctavius] Hill, Esq., R.S.A. The Literary Department, by Professor Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh; and Robert Chambers, Esq., Author of the “Scottish Biographical Dictionary,” “Picture of Scotland,” Etc. Etc., volume II, 2nd edition, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Queen Street, Glasgow; South College Street, Edinburgh; and Warwick Square, London, OCLC 314762618, page ci:
- In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.
- 1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns”, in John Wilson; Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet. The Landscapes from Paintings made Expressly for the Work, by D[avid] O[ctavius] Hill, Esq., R.S.A. The Literary Department, by Professor Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh; and Robert Chambers, Esq., Author of the “Scottish Biographical Dictionary,” “Picture of Scotland,” Etc. Etc., volume II, 2nd edition, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Queen Street, Glasgow; South College Street, Edinburgh; and Warwick Square, London, OCLC 314762618, page ci:
- (orthography) Not sounded; silent.
- (cell biology) Non-proliferating.
Synonyms
- (inactive): dormant; see also Thesaurus:inactive
- (quiet, at rest): calm, still, tranquil; see also Thesaurus:calm
- (not sounded): servile
Derived terms
- quiescence
- quiescently
Translations
See also
- acquiescent
- quiesce
Latin
Verb
qui?scent
- third-person plural future active indicative of qui?sc?
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