Submissive vs. Subservient

Submissive vs. Subservient — Is There a Difference?
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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 ones
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Submissiveadjective

inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;

submissive servantsa submissive replyreplacing troublemakers with more submissive people

Subservientadjective

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

Submissiveadjective

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