معجم الغني
خَنُوعٌ - ج: خُنُعٌ. [خ ن ع]. "عَاشَ خَنُوعاً": ذَلِيلاً.
We fill the dominant and submissive roles.
نملأ الأدوار المسيطرة والخانعة.
You are in control and she is submissive.
أنت المسيطرة وهي خانعة.
She is a little shy but submissive.
إنها خجولة بعض الشيء لكنها خانعة.
It is often described as passive or submissive.
غالبا ما توصف بأنها سلبية أو خانعة.
1580s, "inclined to submit, yielding to authority," from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.