If you are submissive, you obey someone without arguing. Most doctors want their patients to be submissive. + submissively sub·mis·sive·ly The troops submissively laid down their weapons. always willing to obey someone and never disagreeing with them, even if they are unkind to you assertive
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S H Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"