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submissives

submissives is the plural of submissive.

Meaning of submissive

Noun

submissive (plural submissives)

  1. One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
    Synonyms:
    sub
  2. (rare) One who submits.
    • These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.1961, William Compton Brown, The Indian side of the story

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Questions about submissives

What is submissives the plural of?
Submissives is the plural of submissive.

Words near submissives in the dictionary

  1. submissionists
  2. submissions
  3. submissive
  4. submissively
  5. submissiveness
  6. submissives
  7. submissivity
  8. submissly
  9. submissness
  10. submit
  11. submitochondrial

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