docile
Meaning of docile
adjective
- ready to accept control or instruction; submissive.
a cheap and docile workforce
she's a black Labrador, gentle and docile
late 15th century (in the sense ‘apt or willing to learn’): from Latin docilis, from docere ‘teach’.
Information about docile
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of docile
docile
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- docile is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
docile synonyms
Meaning teachable:
Meaning gentle:
Meaning disposed to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent:
Meaning complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another's authority:
Meaning easily influenced or directed; yielding:
Meaning conscientiously or obediently fulfilling one's duty:
Meaning ready, eager, or prepared to do something:
Meaning accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance:
Meaning ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive:
Meaning showing deference; respectful:
Meaning (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated:
Meaning quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive:
Meaning gentle and not easily provoked:
Meaning (of a person) not having or showing a confident and forceful personality:
Meaning not showing, producing, or putting up any resistance:
Meaning (of a substance or object) giving way under pressure; not hard or rigid:
Meaning involving mutual assistance in working towards a common goal:
Meaning open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled:
Meaning willing to fit in with someone's wishes or needs:
Meaning meekly ready to accept and follow instructions:
Meaning easily persuaded; amenable:
Meaning (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire:
Meaning able to be controlled or dealt with without difficulty:
Meaning capable of being directed or influenced:
Meaning (of a person) easy to control or influence:
Meaning easily influenced; pliable:
Meaning containing or mixed with a large amount of milk:
docile antonyms
Meaning refusing to obey rules or someone in authority:
Meaning (of a bad or harmful act) intentional; deliberate:
Translation of docile
- French: souple, docile
- German: nachgiebig, formbar, lenkbar, gefügig, willensschwach
- Spanish: dócil
- Italian: docile, condiscendente
Anagrams of docile
Words that rhyme with docile
bacile, facile, gracile, overfacile, postgracile, pregracile, unfacile, Cecile, Poecile, decile, imbecile, poecile, tredecile, difficile, domicile, ancile, concile, irreconcile, prereconcile, reconcile, Docile, indocile, undocile, Marcile, Lucile
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