docile

see definition of docile

adjcompliant, submissive

Synonyms for docile

adj compliant, submissive

Antonyms for docile

biddable

adjective. obedient

compliant

adjective. obedient

conformable

adjective. appropriate; matching

ductile

adjective. pliant, flexible

dutiful

adjective. obedient

Word Origin & History

late 15c., "easily taught," from Italian or French docile, from Latin docilis "easily taught," from docere "teach" (see doctor). Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.

Example Sentences for docile

"As docile as Daisy" might have been a proverb in the neighborhood, so general was this view of her nature.

But Alice was supposed to be a widow; and Alice was so meek, so docile, so motherly.

He was not used among his docile Canadians to any such speech as this.

She had been a docile pupil, but was incapable of any real progress.

But for all that they were docile, contented and, within their limitations, not unhappy.

"It's true, he is right, my children," Beauchene ended by exclaiming in a docile way.

Florent was obliged to relinquish the hope of making a docile disciple of Claude.

That gentle, docile, emotional little sheep was not a Seguin, she often remarked.

They had turned me into a docile brute with their tame benevolence and sickly tenderness.

And so docile, some of them must needs obey an order before they have understood it!

docile

Synonyms for docile

Antonyms for docile

More words related to docile

amenable

biddable

compliant

conformable

ductile

dutiful