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submissive

 adjective
     
sub‧mis‧sive
always willing to obey someone and never disagreeing with them, even if they are unkind to you [≠ assertive]:
In those days women were expected to be quiet and submissive.
—submissively adverb
—submissiveness noun [uncountable]
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