Another word for docile
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Adjective
Easily managed or handled
- Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
- Naturally unafraid; not timid:
- Submissive; docile; fawning:
- Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.
- Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force:
- Not extreme:
- Showing patience and humility; gentle.
- Easily imposed on; submissive.
- Considerate or kindly in disposition; amiable and tender.
- Not harsh or severe; mild and soft:
- Easily managed or handled; docile:
See also:Willing to carry out the wishes of others
- Easily managed or controlled; governable.
- Easily handled or worked; malleable.
- Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
- Moving and bending with agility; limber:
- Adaptable to changing circumstances:
- Inclined or willing to submit.
- Dutifully complying with the commands, orders, or instructions of one in authority.
- Corresponding; similar:
- Quick to comply; submissive.
- Of, relating to, or being rock or sediment strata that were deposited either adjacent to each other or in vertical sequence without interruption by a disruptive or altering process such as erosion or folding.
- Disposed or willing to comply; submissive.
- Strong enough to be bid. Used of a hand of cards.
- Following directions or obeying commands; docile.
- Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
- Ready to consent; agreeable:
- Responsible to higher authority; accountable:
See also:
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Another word for docile
Modifier
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- Receiving or subjected to an action without responding or initiating an action in return:
- Accepting or submitting without objection or resistance; submissive:
- Existing, conducted, or experienced without active or concerted effort:
- Not assertive; reserved.
- Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.
- Considerate or kindly in disposition; amiable and tender.
- Not harsh or severe; mild and soft:
- Easily managed or handled; docile:
- Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor.
- Possible to manipulate:
- Capable of being governed or subjected to authority; amenable to law or rule; controllable; manageable; obedient.
- Yielding readily to pressure or weight:
- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Not tense and therefore capable of absorbing the impact of a ball or puck and of catching, receiving, or controlling it:
- Living without undue worry or concern; calm.
- Lax or negligent; careless.
- Relaxed or informal in attitude or standards:
- Capable of being accomplished or acquired with ease; posing no difficulty:
- Likely to happen by accident or without intention:
- Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding:
- Capable of being taught:
- Able and willing to learn:
- Inclined to give way to pressure, argument, or influence; docile.
- Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
- Naturally unafraid; not timid:
- Submissive; docile; fawning:
- Easily bent or shaped.
- Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
- Easily influenced, persuaded, or controlled:
- Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
- Easily controlled or influenced:
- Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable:
- Strong enough to be bid. Used of a hand of cards.
- Following directions or obeying commands; docile.
- Capable of being managed or controlled:
- behaving well; conducting oneself properly; displaying good manners
- Ready to do favors for others; accommodating.
- Disposed or inclined; prepared:
- Acting or ready to act gladly; eagerly compliant:
- Done, given, or accepted voluntarily or ungrudgingly.
- To one's liking; pleasing:
- Suitable; conformable:
- Ready to consent or submit:
- Feeling or marked by resignation; acquiescent:
- Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
- Disposed or willing to acquiesce.
- Present participle of comply.
- Helpful and obliging.
- Inclined or willing to submit.
- Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
- Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
- Yielding readily to influence or domination; compliant:
- Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
- Ready to consent; agreeable:
- Responsible to higher authority; accountable:
- Dutifully complying with the commands, orders, or instructions of one in authority.
- Disposed or willing to comply; submissive.
- Easily managed or controlled; governable.
- Easily handled or worked; malleable.
- Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.
- Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force:
- Not extreme:
- Showing patience and humility; gentle.
- Easily imposed on; submissive.
Antonyms:
Synonym Study
- Obedient suggests a giving in to the orders or instructions of one in authority or control an obedient child
- Amenable suggests such amiability or desire to be agreeable as would lead one to submit readily I found her amenable to persuasion
- Compliant suggests a weakness of character that allows one to yield meekly to another's request or demand army life had made him compliant
- 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
- Docile implies a temperament that submits easily to control or that fails to resist domination a docile horse
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