[adj] 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"
[adj] abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "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"
[adj] willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
Synonyms
abject, bowed, bowing, compliant, cringing, dominated, groveling, grovelling, henpecked, meek, servile, slavish, spiritless, subservient, wormlike, wormy