Submissive vs. Subservient
Submissive and Subservient Definitions
Submissive
Inclined or willing to submit.
Subservient
Subordinate in capacity or function.
Submissive
Obedient or passive.
Subservient
Obsequious; servile.
Submissive
(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices.
Subservient
Useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end.
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Submissive
(rare) One who submits.
Subservient
Useful in an inferior capacity.
Submissive
Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
Not at his feet submissive in distress,Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.
Subservient
Obsequiously submissive.
Submissive
Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.
With a submissive step I hasted down.
Subservient
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit.
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Submissive
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
Subservient
Compliant and obedient to authority;
Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
Submissive
Willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
Subservient
Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses
She has become submissive and subservient
Submissive
Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses
She has become submissive and subservient
