Docile vs. Submissive
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Difference Between Docile and Submissive
Docileadjective
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
Submissiveadjective
Meekly obedient or passive.
Docileadjective
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.Submissivenoun
(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.
Docileadjective
willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
the docile masses of an enslaved nationSubmissivenoun
(rare) One who submits.
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Docileadjective
ready and willing to be taught;
docile pupils eager for instructionteachable youngstersSubmissiveadjective
inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;
submissive servantsa submissive replyreplacing troublemakers with more submissive peopleDocileadjective
easily handled or managed;
a gentle old horse, docile and obedientSubmissiveadjective
willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
Submissiveadjective
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
slavish devotion to her job ruled her lifea slavish yes-man to the party bossesshe has become submissive and subservient
