Mistress vs. Submissive — What's the Difference?

A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else.

Inclined or willing to submit.

A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household

Obedient or passive.

A woman who owns or keeps an animal

(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices.

A woman who owns a slave.

(rare) One who submits.

A woman with ultimate control over something

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.

A nation or country that has supremacy over others

Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.

Something personified as female that directs or reigns

Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;

A woman who has mastered a skill or branch of learning

Willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent

Mistress Used formerly as a courtesy title when speaking to or of a woman.

Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;

Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.

A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership

A female teacher

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations

A dominatrix

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it

A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart

(Scotland) A married woman; a wife

(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls

A female companion to a master a man with control, authority or ownership

Female equivalent of master

Female equivalent of mister

Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.

(intransitive) To act or take the role of a mistress.

A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a woman having an ongoing usually exclusive sexual relationship with a man, who may provide her with financial support in return; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually; as, both his wife and his mistress attended his funeral.

A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.

A married woman; a wife.

The old name of the jack at bowls.

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

A woman master who directs the work of others