doormattish

comparative more doormattish · superlative most doormattish · alternative doormatish

1. derogatoryinformalYielding to another person's demands or mistreatment, failing to assert one's own interests.

   When I learned how I can receive (hear), as well as give (express), through using NVC, I went beyond feeling attacked and ‘doormattish’ to really listening to words and extracting their underlying feelings.

   2015, Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3 edition, PuddleDancer Press, page 32