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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable, willing to endure |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, calm, composed, easy-going, enduring, even-tempered, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, imperturbable, indulgent, lenient, long-suffering, meek, mild, mild-tempered, persevering, persistent, philosophic, philosophical, quiet, resigned, self-possessed, serene, stoical, submissive, tolerant, tranquil, uncomplaining, understanding, unruffled, untiring |
| Antonyms: | agitated, frustrated, impatient, intolerant, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired, worn |
| Synonyms: | crippled, dejected, depressed, disarmed, drained, drowned, exhausted, fagged, fallen, frazzled, immobilized, incapacitated, inconsolable, knocked over, obedient, overcome, paralyzed, pooped, spent*, submissive, subservient, tuckered, wearied, worn out |
| Notes: | prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down' supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Antonyms: | hale, healthy, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enduring, passive |
| Synonyms: | accommodated, acquiescent, adapted, adjusted, agreeable, amenable, biddable, calm, compliant, cordial, deferential, docile, genial, gentle, long-suffering, manageable, nonresisting, obedient, patient, peaceable, philosophical, pliant, quiescent, quiet, ready, reconciled, relinquishing, renouncing, satisfied, stoical, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, tolerant, tractable, unassertive, unprotesting, unresisting, well-disposed, willing, yielding |
| Antonyms: | intolerant |
| Main Entry: | respectful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | courteous, mannerly |
| Synonyms: | admiring, appreciative, civil, considerate, courtly, deferential, duteous, dutiful, gracious, humble, obedient, obeisant, polite, recognizing, regardful, regarding, reverent, reverential, self-effacing, solicitous, submissive, upholding, venerating, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, mean, unmannerly |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, cringing, despicable, eating crow, eating humble pie, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | spineless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | amoebalike, faint-hearted, fearful, feeble, forceless, frightened, gutless, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, invertebrate, irresolute, lily-livered, nerveless, pithless, soft, spiritless, squeamish, submissive, timid, vacillating, weak, weak-kneed, weak-willed, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spiritless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, blue*, broken, cast down, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, dopey, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, draggy, drippy, droopy, dull, enervated, flat tire, flat*, inanimate, indifferent, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languishing, languorous, lifeless, limp, listless, low, melancholic, melancholy, mopy, slothful, subdued, submissive, tame, torpid, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unmoved, zero* |
| Antonyms: | energetic, happy, lively, spirited, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subdued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet, controlled |
| Synonyms: | chastened, crestfallen, dejected, dim, domestic, domesticated, down in the mouth, downcast, grave, hushed, inobtrusive, low-key, mellow*, moderated, muted, neutral, out of spirits, repentant, repressed, restrained, sad, serious, shaded, sober, soft, softened, solemn, submissive, subtle, tasteful, tempered, toned down, unobtrusive |
| Antonyms: | aroused, boisterous, communicative, excited, roused, talkative, uncontrolled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | master |
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