too willing to accept somebody else’s authority and willing to obey them without questioning anything they want you to do 唯命是從的;順從的;馴服的;聽話的 He expected his daughters to be meek and submissive. 他期望女兒都溫順聽話。 She followed him like a submissive child. 她像個聽話的孩子一樣跟着他。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from submission, on the pattern of pairs such as remission, remissive.