docile
docilely
If someone is docile, he is easily taught or handled. If you suddenly became a trouble-maker in class, your teachers would long for the days when you were sweet and docile.
Docile comes from Latin root for teaching, docere, so someone docile is easy to teach. A docile student is willing to be taught. A docile animal is easy to handle. If you behave well and do what people tell you to do, you're a docile person. Docile might be a word of praise, but it can also be a criticism of someone for being overly submissive. Some synonyms are amenable and compliant.
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easily handled or managed
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willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
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Synonyms:
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obedient
dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
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meek, tame
very docile
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sheepish, sheeplike
like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
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yielding
inclined to yield to argument or influence or control
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manipulable, tractable
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
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Antonyms:
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obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
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inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising
not making concessions
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disobedient
not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority
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bloody-minded, cantankerous
stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
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bolshy, stroppy
obstreperous
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bullet-headed, bullheaded, pigheaded
impossibly stubborn
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dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
stubbornly unyielding
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contrarious, cross-grained
difficult to deal with
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determined
devoting full strength and concentrated attention to
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hardheaded, mulish
unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
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stiff-necked
haughtily stubborn
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strong-minded, strong-willed
having a determined will
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intractable
not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
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obedient
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ready and willing to be taught“docile pupils eager for instruction”
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manipulable, tractable
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
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manipulable, tractable
Vocabulary lists containing docile
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