Answer:

meek

Answer	Crossword Clue
MEEK	Inheritors?
MEEK	Submissive
MEEK	Docile or gentle

MEEK	Earth inheritors?
MEEK	Mild-mannered
MEEK	Earth's heirs?
MEEK	Earth's inheritors
MEEK	Far from bold
MEEK	Earth's inheritors?
MEEK	Far from haughty
MEEK	Not at all assertive

MEEK	Earth inheritors, with "the"
MEEK	Overly submissive
MEEK	Subdued
MEEK	Yielding
MEEK	Anything but bold
MEEK	Biblical heirs, with "the"
MEEK	Overly compliant
MEEK	Like Walter Mitty

MEEK	Like an "inherit the earth" type
MEEK	Lamblike
MEEK	Like a lamb
MEEK	Like the earth's inheritors, according to the Bible
MEEK	Beatitude heirs, with "the"
MEEK	Like a wallflower
MEEK	Like a milquetoast
MEEK	Assertive's antithesis

MEEK	Not forward
MEEK	Far from forward
MEEK	"The ... Shall Inherit" ("Little Shop of Horrors" song)
MEEK	Docile
MEEK	Far from gutsy
MEEK	Lacking in courage
MEEK	Like Caspar Milquetoast
MEEK	Hardly heroic

MEEK	It is said they will inherit the Earth, with "the"
MEEK	Earth inheritor, per Matthew
MEEK	Passive in nature
MEEK	Humble
MEEK	Humbly patient