Accept vs Submissive - What's the difference?
accept | submissive |
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
To admit to a place or a group.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
To endure patiently.
(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
To receive officially
To receive something willingly.
(obsolete) Accepted.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
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 accept and submissive
is that accept is (obsolete) accepted while submissive is meekly obedient or passive.As a verb accept
is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.As a noun submissive is
one who submits.accept
English
Verb
(en verb)- She accepted of a treat.
- The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
- The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- I accept the fact that Christ lived.
- I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- I accept my punishment.
- to accept the report of a committee
- I accept .
Synonyms
* receive * take * withtake * admitAntonyms
* reject * declineDerived terms
* accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept serviceAdjective
(en adjective)- Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
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 .