Docile

Adjective

 * 1) Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
 * 2) Ready to accept instruction or direction.

Synonyms for Docile

 * : compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable
 * : amenable, compliant, teachable
 * obedient, mild, gentle, quiet, manageable, pliant, pliable, tame, compliant, yielding.

Antonyms for Docile

 * : wilful
 * stubborn, unyielding, resolute, determined, dogged, obstinate, intractable, inflexible, firm, opinionated, disobedient,obdurate, headstrong, refractory.

Derived terms

 * docilely
 * docility

Related terms

 * docent
 * doctor
 * doctorate
 * doctrinaire
 * doctrinal
 * doctrine
 * document
 * indoctrinate

Thesaurus
acquiescent, adaptable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, apt, ardent, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, consenting, content, cooperative, disposed, ductile, eager, educable, enthusiastic, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, flexible, formable, forward, game, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, instructable, intelligent, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, trainable, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, yielding, zealous

Etymology
Latin docilis, from docere 'teach'.

Translations

 * Bosnian: pokoran
 * Bulgarian: податлив, послушен
 * Crimean Tatar: yuvaş
 * Czech:, poddajný
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: fügsam, gefügig
 * Hungarian: kezelhető


 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish: sernerm
 * Polish: potulny
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: soirbh, sèimh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: foglig
 * Turkish: yumuşak başlı,


 * Bosnian: poslušan
 * Bulgarian: схватлив, възприемчив
 * Hungarian: irányítható
 * Polish: pojętny


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: lydig, foglig
 * Turkish:, uslu

Anagrams

 * coiled
 * coldie

Adjective

 * 1) docile.

Adjective

 * 1) compliant, obedient, mild
 * 2) docile, meek

Antonyms

 * indocile

Derived terms

 * docilità
 * docilmente