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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lesser, supplementary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary, baser, below par, collateral, contributory, dependent, inferior, insignificant, junior, low, lower, minor, paltry, satellite, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, sub, subaltern, subalternate, subject, submissive, subnormal, subservient, subsidiary, substract, tributary, under, underaverage, unequal |
| Antonyms: | chief, important, major, necessary, superior, vital |
| Main Entry: | tame |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domesticated, compliant |
| Synonyms: | acclimatized, amenable, biddable, bridled, broken, busted, civilized, cultivated, disciplined, docile, domestic, fearless, gentle, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harmless, harnessed, housebroken, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient, overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained, unafraid, unresisting, yoked |
| Antonyms: | unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | timid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | afraid, ambivalent, apprehensive, badgered, bashful, browbeaten, bullied, capricious, cowardly, cowed, cowering, coy, daunted, demure, diffident, fainthearted, fearful, feeble, frightened, gentle, having cold feet, humble, intimidated, irresolute, milquetoast, modest, mousy, nervous, pusillanimous, retiring, shaky, shrinking, soft, spineless, spiritless, submissive, timid, timorous, trembling, unassertive, unassured, unnerved, vacillating, wavering, weak, yellow* |
| Notes: | timid is used of a person's character or disposition; timorous is used of a person's action or behavior |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, daring, extroverted, fearless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tractable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manageable |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, going along with, governable, hanging loose, malleable, meek, obedient, persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, putty in hands, rolling with punches, subdued, submissive, tame, tractile, willing, workable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | intractable, obstinate, stubborn, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly |
| Main Entry: | yielding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accommodating |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, biddable, compliant, docile, easy, flexible, humble, nonresistant, obedient, passive, pliable, pliant, putty in one's hands, resigned, submissive, tractable |
| Antonyms: | obstinate, resistant, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | cringing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | servile |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, crouching, obsequious, submissive |
| Main Entry: | governable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manageable |
| Synonyms: | controllable, docile, submissive, workable |
| Main Entry: | groveling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | servile |
| Synonyms: | cringing, docile, fawning, humble, submissive |
| Main Entry: | henpecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dominated by one's wife |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, browbeaten, compliant, constrained, docile, dominated, in fear of one's wife, intimidated, led by the nose, meek, nagged, obedient, passive, resigned, subjected to nagging, submissive, timid, unassertive, under one's thumb, unresisting, wife-ridden, yielding |
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