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Beneath vs Submissive - What's the difference?

beneath | submissive |

As an adverb beneath

is below or underneath.

As a preposition beneath

is below.

As a noun submissive is

one who submits.

As an adjective submissive is

meekly obedient or passive.

beneath

English

Alternative forms

* beneathe (obsolete)

Adverb

(head)
  • Below or underneath.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
    • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath , the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Below.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Our country sinks beneath the yoke.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • In a position that is lower in rank, dignity, etc.
  • * (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
    • He will do nothing that is beneath his high station.
  • Covered up or concealed by something.

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    * English prepositions

    submissive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who submits

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Meekly obedient or passive.
  • * 1756 , Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke , G. Bell & sons, page 314:
    • The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court.
  • * 1913 , Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology , Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92:
    • If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
  • * 2007 , Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda , HSRC Press, page 269:
    • Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive .

    Derived terms

    * submissively (adverb) * submissiveness (noun)

    Synonyms

    * docile * meek * slavish * timid * obedient

    Antonyms

    * dominant, domineering (ruling ) * defiant, rebellious (ignoring )