Another word for docile
docile
modif.
meek, mild, tractable, compliant, obedient, amenable, pliant, submissive, accommodating, complying, acquiescent, adaptable, resigned, agreeable, willing, obliging, well-behaved, manageable, biddable, malleable, pliable, tame, yielding, teachable, easily influenced, easy, easygoing, soft, governable, manipulable, childlike, gentle, complaisant, unassertive, passive, unresisting; see also gentle 3, humble 1, obedient 1.
Antonyms rebellious, ungovernable, wild.
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
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Another word for docile
Easily managed or handled:
gentle, meek, mild, tame. See wildWilling to carry out the wishes of others:
amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, obedient, submissive, supple, tractable. See resist
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