submissive
suomi-englanti sanakirjasubmissive englannista suomeksi
kuuliainen, nöyrä
nöyrästi myöntyvä
submissive englanniksi
(cap) obedient or passive; obsequious.
{{quote-book|en|year=1756|author=Edmund Burke|title=The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke|publisher=G. Bell & sons|page=314
1913, Edward Lee Thorndike, ''Educational Psychology'', Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92:
- If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Brian Watermeyer|title=Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda|publisher=HSRC Press|page=269
One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
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One who submits.
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