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