compliable
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
compliable (comparative more compliable, superlative most compliable)
- Capable of bending or yielding, or willing to do so; compliant.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
- another compliable mind
- 1746, John Jortin, Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion:
- The Jews […] had made their religion compliable, and accommodated to their passions.
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "capable of bending or yielding"): incompliable
Translations edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compliable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)