submissive

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /səbˈmɪsɪv/
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• rhymes with -ɪsɪv
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88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَاضِع (ḵāḍiʕ) — meekly obedient or passive
• Azerbaijani: müti — meekly obedient or passive
• Belarusian: пако́рлівы (pakórlivy) — meekly obedient or passive
• Bulgarian: покорен (pokoren) — meekly obedient or passive
• Bulgarian: смирен (smiren) — meekly obedient or passive
• Chinese Mandarin: 服從的 /服从的 (fúcóng de) — meekly obedient or passive
• Czech: pokorný — meekly obedient or passive
• Czech: poddajný — meekly obedient or passive
• Czech: submisivní — meekly obedient or passive
• Danish: underdanig — meekly obedient or passive
• Danish: lydig — meekly obedient or passive
• Dutch: onderdanig — meekly obedient or passive
• Esperanto: cedema — meekly obedient or passive
• Esperanto: submetiĝema — meekly obedient or passive
• Faroese: eftirgevin — meekly obedient or passive
• Faroese: undirbrotligur — meekly obedient or passive
• Faroese: eyðmjúkur — meekly obedient or passive
• Faroese: lýðin — meekly obedient or passive
• Finnish: alistuva — meekly obedient or passive
• Finnish: nöyrtyvä — meekly obedient or passive
• Finnish: nöyrästi myöntyvä — meekly obedient or passive
• Finnish: nöyrä — meekly obedient or passive
• French: soumis — meekly obedient or passive
• German: submissiv — meekly obedient or passive
• German: unterwürfig — meekly obedient or passive
• German: demütig — meekly obedient or passive
• German: fügsam — meekly obedient or passive
• German: gefügig — meekly obedient or passive
• German: gehorsam — meekly obedient or passive
• Greek: υποτακτικός (ypotaktikós) — meekly obedient or passive
• Hebrew: כָּנוּעַ (kanúa) — meekly obedient or passive
• Indonesian: submisif — meekly obedient or passive
• Italian: sottone — meekly obedient or passive
• Italian: sottona — meekly obedient or passive
• Japanese: 服従的な (fukujūteki na) — meekly obedient or passive
• Japanese: M (M) — meekly obedient or passive
• Latin: obnoxius — meekly obedient or passive
• Latin: summissus — meekly obedient or passive
• Macedonian: покорен (pokoren) — meekly obedient or passive
• Manx: beasagh — meekly obedient or passive
• Māori: iro — meekly obedient or passive
• Māori: iroiro — meekly obedient or passive
• Navajo: hoołtsoodii — meekly obedient or passive
• Old English: bēogol — meekly obedient or passive
• Polish: pokorny — meekly obedient or passive
• Polish: uległy — meekly obedient or passive
• Portuguese: submisso — meekly obedient or passive
• Portuguese: submissivo — meekly obedient or passive
• Romanian: supus — meekly obedient or passive
• Romanian: docil — meekly obedient or passive
• Romanian: umil — meekly obedient or passive
• Russian: поко́рный (pokórnyj) — meekly obedient or passive
• Russian: смире́нный (smirénnyj) — meekly obedient or passive
• Russian: послу́шный (poslúšnyj) — meekly obedient or passive
• Serbo-Croatian: покоран — meekly obedient or passive
• Serbo-Croatian: pokoran — meekly obedient or passive
• Slovak: submisívny — meekly obedient or passive
• Upper Sorbian: pokorny — meekly obedient or passive
• Upper Sorbian: podwólny — meekly obedient or passive
• Spanish: sumiso — meekly obedient or passive
• Swedish: undergiven — meekly obedient or passive
• Swedish: underdånig — meekly obedient or passive
• Swedish: lydig — meekly obedient or passive
• Old Swedish: lȳdhoger — meekly obedient or passive
• Old Swedish: undirdānogher — meekly obedient or passive
• Old Swedish: undirgivin — meekly obedient or passive
• Turkish: boyun eğen — meekly obedient or passive
• Turkish: itaatkâr — meekly obedient or passive
• Turkish: itaatli — meekly obedient or passive
• Turkish: teslîmiyetçi — meekly obedient or passive
• Turkish: uysallıkla — meekly obedient or passive
• Ottoman Turkish: ذلیل (zelil) — meekly obedient or passive
• Ukrainian: покірний (pokirnyj) — meekly obedient or passive
• Yiddish: ניכנעדיק (nikhnedik) — meekly obedient or passive
• Yiddish: אונטערגעוואָרפֿן (untergevorfn) — meekly obedient or passive
• Esperanto: subulo — person submitting to a partner
• Finnish: alistuja — person submitting to a partner
• Finnish: alistuva — person submitting to a partner
• French: passif — person submitting to a partner
• French: soumis — person submitting to a partner
• French: soumise — person submitting to a partner
• Hebrew: כָּנוּעַ (kanúa) — person submitting to a partner
• Polish: uległy — person submitting to a partner
• Spanish: sumiso — person submitting to a partner
• Spanish: sumisa — person submitting to a partner
• Yiddish: ניכנע (nikhne) — person submitting to a partner
• Yiddish: אונטערגעוואָרפֿענער (untergevorfener) — person submitting to a partner
• Yiddish: אונטערגעוואָרפֿענע (untergevorfene) — person submitting to a partner