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docile
- /ˈdəʊ.saɪl/ UK
- /ˈdɑ.səl/ US
- /ˈdɑ.saɪl/ US
Rhymes with (US) -ɑːsəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”).
Compare Portuguese dócil ("docile").
adjective more docile · most docile
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Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence.
He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission
Similar: amenable, compliant, teachable, bowsome, buxom, hearsome, morigerous, obedible, obedient, obsequent, obsequious, tall
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Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
Similar: compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable · Opposite: perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful
Similar: amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, docile, governable, indulgent, manageable, maniable, meek, passive, pliant, rulable, tractable, yielding · Opposite: authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, dominant, domineering, imperious, overbearing, defiant, obstinate, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, wilful, incompliant, incontrollable, indocile, intractable, nonamenable, noncompliant, noncontrollable, nondocile, nonindulgent, nonpassive, nonpliant, nonyielding, unamenable, unbiddable, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncontrollable
Thesaurus
adjective
Similar: amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, docile, governable, indulgent, manageable, maniable, meek, passive, pliant, rulable, tractable, yielding · Opposite: authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, dominant, domineering, imperious, overbearing, defiant, obstinate, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, wilful, incompliant, incontrollable, indocile, intractable, nonamenable, noncompliant, noncontrollable, nondocile, nonindulgent, nonpassive, nonpliant, nonyielding, unamenable, unbiddable, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncontrollable
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adj accepting instructions
| Español | dócil |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | fügsam, gefügig, gehorsam, folgsam, gelehrig |
| Italiano | obbediente |
| Русский | поня́тливый ponjátlivyj |
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