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   submissive

   /səbˈmɪsɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive: "a submissive, almost sheeplike people"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from submission, on the pattern of pairs such as remission, remissive.

   Derivatives

   • 1. submissively adverb

   Scrabble Points: 17

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