compliant

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adj obedient

adjective. able and usually willing to change

adjective. obedient

adjective. appropriate; matching

adjective. dutiful

adjective. obedient

1640s, from comply + -ant.

She is easy, good-natured, and compliant about everything but her sleep.

Shall we ever subdue her and make her always submissive and compliant?

By his social and compliant temper he was calculated for general society.

We have been only too compliant to papa's wishes about that woman.

She was happy and serene, compliant with whatever was proposed.

As for the Cheapside maid, first I will try wooing; she may be compliant of her own accord.

In Rugova it will find a genteel, compliant, respectable and submissive partner.

For on the back of that compliant Measure, unseen, there rides a Principle.

My dear, you would not find him compliant if you wished to marry a man he did not approve of.

His look and tone were as abrupt as it was in his nature, which was soft and compliant, to make them.