Subdued vs Submissive - What's the difference?
subdued | submissive |
Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.
(subdue)
Meekly obedient or passive.
* 1756 , Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke , G. Bell & sons, page 314:
* 1913 , Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology , Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92:
* 2007 , Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda , HSRC Press, page 269:
As adjectives the difference between subdued and submissive
is that subdued is conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild while submissive is meekly obedient or passive.As a verb subdued
is past tense of subdue.As a noun submissive is
one who submits.subdued
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- he is subdued after the disagreement last night.
- the colour scheme used for this room is subdued .
Verb
(head)- He subdued the dog yesterday.
submissive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive .
