Submissive vs. Subservient
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Difference Between Submissive and Subservient
Submissiveadjective
Meekly obedient or passive.
Subservientadjective
Useful in an inferior capacity.
Submissivenoun
(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.
Subservientadjective
Obsequiously submissive.
Submissivenoun
(rare) One who submits.
Subservientadjective
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 onesADVERTISEMENT
Submissiveadjective
inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;
submissive servantsa submissive replyreplacing troublemakers with more submissive peopleSubservientadjective
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 subservientSubmissiveadjective
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
