Thesaurus / docile
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other words 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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She is the docile Earth-mother who generously balances and protects the environment and all its inhabitants.
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.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDBucephalus became the favorite horse of Alexander, and was very tractable and docile, though full of life and spirit.
STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS: WITH PICTURES TO MATCHFRANCIS C. WOODWORTHI was not long in discovering that the abbess had conceived a passion for me, and I became her too docile favorite.
RULE OF THE MONKGIUSEPPE GARIBALDIThose we saw were reddish, and appeared very docile and familiar.
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