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amenable
Ready to consent; agreeable:
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  1. Ready to consent; agreeable:
  2. Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
  3. Legally answerable; required to respond; responsible; subject to.
loyal
Faithful to those persons, ideals, etc. that one is under obligation to defend, support, or be true to
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  1. Faithful to those persons, ideals, etc. that one is under obligation to defend, support, or be true to
  2. Of, relating to, or marked by loyalty:
  3. Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.
law-abiding
Obeying the law; characterized by lawful behavior
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  1. Obeying the law; characterized by lawful behavior
tractable
Easily managed, taught, or controlled; docile; compliant
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  1. Easily managed, taught, or controlled; docile; compliant
resigned
Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
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  1. Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
  2. Feeling or marked by resignation; acquiescent:
devoted
Very loving, loyal, or faithful
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  1. Very loving, loyal, or faithful
  2. Characterized by devotion or zeal; dedicated
  3. Feeling or displaying strong affection or attachment; ardent:
respectful
Showing or marked by proper respect.
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  1. Showing or marked by proper respect.
  2. Full of or characterized by respect; showing deference or dutiful regard
complaisant
Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
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  1. Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
attentive
Paying close attention; alert or observant:
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  1. Paying close attention; alert or observant:
  2. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
  3. Considerate, courteous, devoted, etc.
obliging
Ready to do favors; helpful; courteous; accommodating
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  1. Ready to do favors; helpful; courteous; accommodating
  2. Happy and ready to do favours for others.
willing
Done, given, or accepted voluntarily or ungrudgingly.
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  1. Done, given, or accepted voluntarily or ungrudgingly.
  2. Acting or ready to act gladly; eagerly compliant:
  3. Disposed or inclined; prepared:
deferential
Respectful and considerate; showing deference
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  1. Respectful and considerate; showing deference
  2. Marked by or exhibiting deference.
  3. Based on deference; based on the doctrine, ideology, or wishes of others rather than one's own conclusions
faithful
Engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.
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  1. Engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.
  2. Responsible; conscientious:
  3. Consistent with truth or actuality:
reverential
Expressing reverence; reverent.
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  1. Expressing reverence; reverent.
  2. Inspiring reverence.
  3. Showing or caused by reverence
pliant
Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
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  1. Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
  2. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
  3. Adaptable or compliant
acquiescent
Acquiescing; agreeing or consenting without protest
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  1. Acquiescing; agreeing or consenting without protest
  2. Disposed or willing to acquiesce.
compliant
In compliance, as with a standard or regulation:
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  1. In compliance, as with a standard or regulation:
  2. Complying or tending to comply; yielding; submissive
  3. Inclined or willing to comply; obedient:
amenable
Ready to consent; agreeable:
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  1. Ready to consent; agreeable:
  2. Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
  3. Legally answerable; required to respond; responsible; subject to.
biddable
Worth bidding on
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  1. Worth bidding on
  2. (Games) Strong enough to be bid. Used of a hand of cards.
  3. Docile, amenable or compliant.
compliant
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
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  1. Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
  2. Inclined or willing to comply; obedient:
  3. Complying or tending to comply; yielding; submissive
conformable
In harmony or agreement
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  1. In harmony or agreement
  2. Having the same shape, very similar.
  3. (Geology) 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.
docile
Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
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  1. Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
  2. Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.
  3. Easy to manage or discipline; submissive
submissive
Meekly obedient or passive.
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  1. Meekly obedient or passive.
  2. Inclined or willing to submit.
  3. Having or showing a tendency to submit without resistance; docile; yielding
supple
Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
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  1. Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
  2. Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
  3. Moving and bending with agility; limber:
tractable
Easily managed, taught, or controlled; docile; compliant
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  1. Easily managed, taught, or controlled; docile; compliant
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Sentence Examples

  • If you want an obedient nymph, then go get one.

  • As an officer he was obedient and never disputed my orders or argued with them.

  • "Does the food please you, my king?" he asked, standing like an obedient servant beside the madman.

  • But Louis was not the obedient tool she wished for.

  • Carmen was obedient – how much was in her nature and how much was the result of strict upbringing was hard to determine.

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