„... was sicher eher unmöglich zu belegen ist ob der Tatsache, dass es "submissiv" schon in seriösen Wörterbüchern nicht gibt.
(BTw: "submiss" ist ein deutsches Adjektiv. Es ist als veraltet markiert, existiert aber. In er Bedeutung ist es, laut Duden, synonym zu "devot".)
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Bedeutung von submissive im Englisch
submissive
adjective
uk
/səbˈmɪs.ɪv/ us
/səbˈmɪs.ɪv/
allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals:
He was looking for a quiet, submissive wife who would obey his every word.
In the presence of older birds, the younger eagles tend to be submissive.
Synonyme
servile disapproving
slavish disapproving
Gegensätze
dominant
domineering disapproving
Mehr Beispiele
• They do not necessarily have to be submissive to the President.
• Researchers found that some Asian American women feel pressure to fit into stereotypes of them as submissive geisha girls.
• It's disturbing that these children have learned to be submissive in order to not get hit.
• The current advice if you encounter a grizzly bear is to act submissive.
• The chimpanzees are likely to regard you as submissive to their dominance.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Verwandte Wörter
submissively
submissiveness
(Definition von submissive aus dem Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
submissive | Amerikanisches Wörterbuch
submissive
adjective
us
/səbˈmɪs·ɪv/
showing a willingness to be controlled by other people:
a submissive gesture
(Definition von submissive aus dem Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Beispiele von submissive
submissive
In any culture there are people who are assertive, submissive, friendly, unfriendly, vibrant, mellow, and so on.
From the Cambridge English Corpus:
• The fight generally comes to a quick conclusion when one of the combatants adopts a submissive posture and flees.
• Their ideal notion of femininity was more distinct here and represented through the image of the 'submissive wife', who should obey and please her husband.
• This is no submissive martyr-victim but a woman of physical power and presence.
• Secondly, the closed list encourages party loyalty, a culture of conformism and submissive politicians.
• Whether she purports to be proper or not, she must be forced back into her role of proper, submissive femininity.
• It is threatening, not innocuous, eradicating the social presupposition that silent women are submissive, rather than "within themselves," speaking a subversive language of neutrality.
• The morals and virtues that it ostensibly taught lauded behaviour that was submissive, particularly on the part of women and the young.
• Discomfort can be relieved by submissive gestures, such as eye or gaze aversion.
• On the average, women tend to adopt a more socially oriented and submissive pattern of behavior than men, who are predominantly taskoriented and assertive.
• The submissive subgraph is not deleted from the chromosome, but is ignored in most calculations.
• By romanticising the past, older people are urging the younger generation back to a submissive position.
• When the husband dies, his power is far from diminished, because the submissive wife continues to conduct her life according to his expectations.
• In such literature there is little place for women, who with few exceptions are no more than submissive spouses, rarely seen and never heard.
• A string of epithets usually followed: children were timid, submissive, barely awake, lacking motivation, poorly nourished.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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Übersetzungen von submissive
auf Chinesisch (traditionell)
順從的,溫順的,聽話的…
auf Chinesisch (vereinfacht)
顺从的,温顺的,听话的…
auf Spanisch
sumiso, dócil…
auf Portugiesisch
submisso, dócil…
auf Deutsch
unterwürfig…
Quelle:
https://dictionary.cambridge … rterbuch/englisch/submissive