different between submissive vs submit

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s?b?m?s?v/

Adjective

submissive (comparative more submissive, superlative most submissive)

1. 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.

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)

1. (BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.
2. (rare) One who submits.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

submissive

1. inflection of submissiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

English

Etymology

From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submitt? (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?bm?t?, IPA^(key): /s?b?m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: sub?mit

Verb

submit (third-person singular simple present submits, present participle submitting, simple past and past participle submitted)

1. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.

   They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.

2. (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
   • 1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution

     We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
4. (transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
5. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
   • Okamoto, Brett (December 28, 2013) , “Ronda Rousey wins with arm bar”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[1], ESPN.com, retrieved January 6, 2014

     "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."

6. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
   • 1662, John Dryden, Poem to the Lord Chancellor Hyde

     Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
   • 1611, George Chapman, Homer's Iliads

     The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

Derived terms

• submittable
• submittal
• submitter

Related terms

• submission
• submissive
• mission

Translations

Further reading

• submit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• submit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• submit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• tumbis