(adjective) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination*When animal live in packs, one animal is usually the dominant leader, while the others fall into more submissive roles. To be submissive is to obey or yield to someone else.
*When you are submissive, you submit to someone else's will, which literally, you put your own desires lower than theirs.
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