| Main Entry: | meek |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy; compliant |
Synonyms: |
acquiescent, deferential, docile, forbearing, gentle, humble, lenient, long-suffering, longanimous, lowly, manageable, mild, milquetoast, modest, nothing, orderly, pabulum, passive, patient, peaceful, plain, resigned, serene, soft, spineless, spiritless, subdued, submissive, tame, timid, tolerant, unassuming, unpretentious, unresisting, weak, weak-kneed, wishy-washy, yielding, zero* |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, emboldened, immodest, impertinent, uninhibited |
| Main Entry: | passive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lifeless, inactive |
Synonyms: |
acquiescent, apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, going through motions, hands off, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, moony, motionless, nonresistant, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unassertive, unflappable, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it, yielding |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
Antonyms: |
active, dynamic, lively |
| Main Entry: | resigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enduring, passive |
Synonyms: |
accommodated, acquiescent, adapted, adjusted, agreeable, amenable, biddable, calm, compliant, cordial, deferential, docile, genial, gentle, long-suffering, manageable, nonresisting, obedient, patient, peaceable, philosophical, pliant, quiescent, quiet, ready, reconciled, relinquishing, renouncing, satisfied, stoical, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, tolerant, tractable, unassertive, unprotesting, unresisting, well-disposed, willing, yielding |
Antonyms: |
intolerant |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
Synonyms: |
abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, cringing, despicable, eating crow, eating humble pie, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous, unresisting |
Antonyms: |
aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | submissive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant |
Synonyms: |
abject, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, bowing down, comformable, complying, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, giving-in, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, yes*, yielding |
Antonyms: |
disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | tame |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domesticated, compliant |
Synonyms: |
acclimatized, amenable, biddable, bridled, broken, busted, civilized, cultivated, disciplined, docile, domestic, fearless, gentle, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harmless, harnessed, housebroken, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient, overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained, unafraid, unresisting, yoked |
Antonyms: |
unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | yielding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soft, flexible |
Synonyms: |
elastic, malleable, mushy, pappy, plastic, pliable, pulpy, quaggy, resilient, spongy, springy, squishy, supple, tractable, tractile, unresisting |
Antonyms: |
hard, rigid, solid, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | henpecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dominated by one's wife |
Synonyms: |
acquiescent, browbeaten, compliant, constrained, docile, dominated, in fear of one's wife, intimidated, led by the nose, meek, nagged, obedient, passive, resigned, subjected to nagging, submissive, timid, unassertive, under one's thumb, unresisting, wife-ridden, yielding |
| Main Entry: | yielding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
self, concessive, down on one's marrow, givy, humble, indefensible, non, pliant, resigned, submissive, surrendering, undefended, unresisting, untenable
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