Thesaurus / docile
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synonyms for docile
- easygoing
- gentle
- laid-back
- meek
- obedient
- pliable
- pliant
- well-behaved
- accommodating
- acquiescent
- adaptable
- agreeable
- amenable
- biddable
- childlike
- complacent
- cool
- docious
- ductile
- easily influenced
- easy
- governable
- humble
- manageable
- mellow
- mild
- obliging
- orderly
- quiet
- resigned
- soft
- tame
- teachable
- tractable
- usable
- weak-kneed
- willing
- yielding
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His loud, often profane way had been exchanged for a more docile demeanor.
THE MANY LIVES OF H. RAP BROWNREMBERT BROWNENOVEMBER 1, 2021TIMEThe harder she looks, the more she sees beneath the “docile surface” of the streets.
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GAIA, THE SCIENTIST - ISSUE 99: UNIVERSALITYHOPE JAHRENAPRIL 7, 2021NAUTILUSThey note that the bowheads, which had initially been docile, started using the sea ice to avoid harpoons.
SPERM WHALES HAVE A SURPRISINGLY DEEP—AND USEFUL—CULTUREELLIE SHECHETMARCH 19, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEIt is the young animals of these species which are the most social and docile and most approach man in appearance.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISIt consisted in subjecting some of the docile herbivora more fully to human mastership.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISShe tried to turn a docile face toward old Kano; but the deepening glory of her husband's look drew her as light draws a flower.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSAInstead of creating men, a perfect God ought to have created only docile and submissive angels.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERWe have always been taught to think a nation sound and safe whose women were docile and domestic.
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