uk â /sÉbËmÉªs.Éªv/ us â /sÉbËmÉªs.Éªv/. âº A submissive person allows themselves to be controlled by other people: He was looking for a quiet, submissive wife who would obey his every word. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words. Weakness and vulnerability.
The times of sunrise and sunset, measured by the clock, are also affected by the difference between the two kinds of time. Although the length of daylight is shortest on the winter solstice, around December 21, the dates of earliest sunset and latest sunrise are, somewhat surprisingly, not on this date.
In this part of the world, our earliest sunrise occurred back on June 14 or 15 (depending on your exact location), and the latest sunset will be on about June 26, although itâs not until early July that it will flip from 8:25 to 8:24 p.m., because itâs only moving by seconds a day this time of year.