Synonyms of the word docile


DOCILEGENTLE - MANIPULABLE - MEEK - OBEDIENT - SHEEPISH - SHEEPLIKE - TAME - TAMED - TEACHABLE - TRACTABLE - YIELDING

docile

  • adj. Ready to accept instruction or direction, obedient, subservient.
  • adj. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

gentle

  • adj. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • adj. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
  • adj. Docile and easily managed.
  • adj. Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
  • adj. Polite and respectful rather than rude.
  • adj. (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  • v. (intransitive) to become gentle.
  • v. (transitive) to ennoble.
  • v. (transitive, animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate.
  • v. (transitive) To soothe; to calm.
  • n. (archaic) A person of high birth.
  • n. (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
  • n. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

manipulable

  • adj. manipulatable.

meek

  • adj. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
  • adj. Submissive, dispirited.
  • v. (US) (of horses) To tame; to break.

obedient

  • adj. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.

sheepish

  • adj. Having the characteristics of a sheep.
  • adj. Shy, meek, shameful or embarrassed.

sheeplike

  • adj. Resembling a sheep: docile or uncomplaining, or willing to follow a leader blindly.

tame

  • adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
  • adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
  • adj. Not exciting.
  • adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • v. (transitive) to make something tame.
  • v. (intransitive) to become tame.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;…

tamed

  • adj. domesticated; made tame.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of tame.

teachable

  • adj. Capable of being taught; apt to learn.
  • adj. Willing to receive instruction or to learn; docile.
  • adj. That can be taught.
  • adj. Facilitating teaching; instructive.

tractable

  • adj. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.
  • adj. Capable of being shaped; malleable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.
  • adj. (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed…
  • adj. (computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant,…

yielding

  • v. present participle of yield.
  • adj. Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
  • n. A concession.

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