Synonyms for docile

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docile implies a temperament that submits easily to control or that fails to resist domination a docile horse; tractable implies ease of management or control but does not connote the submissiveness of docile and applies to things as well as people and animalssilver is a tractable, i.e., malleable, metal; compliant suggests a weakness of character that allows one to yield meekly to another's request or demand army life had made him compliant; amenable suggests such amiability or desire to be agreeable as would lead one to submit readily I found her amenable to persuasion; obedient suggests a giving in to the orders or instructions of one in authority or control an obedient child