Main entry: submissive
Definition: inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
Usage: submissive servants; a submissive reply; replacing troublemakers with more submissive people
Antonyms: domineering
Definition: tending to domineer
Antonyms: plucked
Definition: of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
Antonyms: spirited
Definition: displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
Main entry: slavish, submissive, subservient
Definition: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
Usage: slavish devotion to her job ruled her life; a slavish yes-man to the party bosses- S.H.Adams; she has become submissive and subservient
Antonyms: unservile, unsubmissive
Definition: not servile or submissive