submissive

CEFRB2

/səbˈmɪsɪv/

adjective · noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Tom is obedient, almost submissive.
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...
Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive.

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Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive.
2007, Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda, HSRC Press, page 269
The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court.
1756, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, G. Bell & sons, page 314
These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.
1961, William Compton Brown, The Indian side of the story

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