Definition for Deferential:

• Relating to the ductus ( or vas) deferens.

Synonyms for Deferential:

• adj.

  •ceremonious (adjective)
  • more precise,
  • striking,
  • grandiose,
  • ex-act,
  • ex act,
  • impressive.
  •complaisant (adjective)
  • good natured,
  • more easy-going,
  • most easy-going,
  • good humored,
  • goodnatured,
  • friendly,
  • goodtempered,
  • most easy going,
  • good tempered,
  • more easy going,
  • goodhumored.
  •compliant (adjective)
  • submissive.
  •courteous (adjective)
  • diplomatic,
  • well-bred,
  • gallant,
  • mannerly,
  • chivalrous,
  • hospitable,
  • gentlemanly,
  • decorous,
  • dignified,
  • suave,
  • ladylike,
  • well-mannered,
  • noble.
  •disarming (adjective)
  • Inveigling,
  • irresistible,
  • dis-arming,
  • dis arming,
  • most winning,
  • be witching,
  • be-witching.
  •dutiful (adjective)
  • de voted,
  • de-voted.
  •humble (adjective)
  • timorous,
  • unambitious,
  • self-conscious,
  • supplicatory,
  • unpretentious.
  •polite (adjective)
  • wellbehaved,
  • re fined,
  • well behaved,
  • well mannered,
  • well bred,
  • wellbred.
  •regardful (adjective)
  • more advertent,
  • most intentive,
  • more observative,
  • more arrect,
  • more intentive,
  • most advertent,
  • most observative,
  • most arrect.
  •resigned (adjective)
  • unassertive,
  • Nonresisting,
  • stoical,
  • well-disposed,
  • unprotesting.
  •reverent (adjective)
  • most worshipping,
  • more worshipping.
  •servile (adjective)
  • docile,
  • yielding,
  • feudal,
  • devoted,
  • slavish,
  • curtsying,
  • inferior,
  • kowtowing,
  • downtrodden,
  • willing,
  • menial,
  • browbeaten,
  • Genuflecting,
  • subordinate,
  • attending,
  • Subjected,
  • biddable,
  • groveling.
  •submissive (adjective)
  • non resistant,
  • more giving-in,
  • most obeying,
  • more obeying,
  • most nonresistant,
  • most givingin,
  • most complying,
  • more comformable,
  • givingin,
  • most giving in,
  • most giving-in,
  • yesser,
  • more complying,
  • sub-missive,
  • more nonresistant,
  • more giving in,
  • un-complaining,
  • most comformable,
  • most uncomplaining,
  • sub missive,
  • yessest,
  • more uncomplaining,
  • un complaining,
  • more givingin.
  •subservient (adjective)
  • at one mercy,
  • more dancing,
  • most cowering,
  • more bootlicking,
  • more cowering,
  • a slave to,
  • under one thumb,
  • most bootlicking,
  • at mercy,
  • most dancing,
  • under ones thumb,
  • at ones mercy.

• n.

  •
  • ardent.
  •
  • resist.
  •acquiescent (noun)
  • acquiescent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • demonstrative,
  • loving,
  • wonderingly,
  • affectionate,
  • gooey,
  • adoring,
  • gushing,
  • lovingly,
  • fond,
  • laudatory,
  • fuzzy.
  •
  • fondly.

Antonyms for Deferential:

• adj.

  • respectful, considerate
    arrogant, unrefined, immodest, noncompliant, uncivil, disrespectful, impolite, unmannerly, inconsiderate, disobedient.
  • Other antonyms:
    depreciative, scornful, depreciatory, irreverent, belittling, disparaging, derogatory, contemptuous, demeaning, rude, insulting, undutiful, offensive.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    derogative.

Deferential Sentence Examples:

• We were received with politeness, deferential politeness, everywhere.

• Francis' manner, although deferential and courteous, had nevertheless some quality of aloofness in it to which she was unused and which she was quick to recognise.

Homophones for Deferential:

• differential, deferentially, differently.