compliant

English

Etymology

From comply +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈplʌɪənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈplaɪənt/
• Hyphenation: com‧pli‧ant
• Rhymes: -aɪənt

Adjective

compliant (comparative more compliant, superlative most compliant)

1. Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

   Synonyms: yielding, bending, pliant, supple

   The suspect was compliant when arrested.

   Tendon is compliant compared to bone.

2. Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.

   The browser is standards-compliant.

   The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

   • 2025 April 16, Ben Jones, “An opening for international high-speed competition”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 13:

     Station capacity in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam remains a thorny issue, as does obtaining suitable Channel Tunnel-compliant trains.

Synonyms

• conformant; see also Thesaurus:conformant

Antonyms

• non-compliant, noncompliant

Derived terms

• biocompliant
• buzzword compliant
• compliancy
• compliantly
• hypercompliant
• incompliant
• Kinnaird compliant
• overcompliant
• semicompliant
• standards compliant
• uncompliant

Related terms

• compliance

Translations

willing to comply

• Bulgarian: отстъпчив (bg) (otstǎpčiv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顺从的

• Dutch: buigzaam (nl), medewerkend (nl), onderdanig (nl)
• Finnish: myöntyväinen (fi), suostuvainen (fi); ei tehnyt vastarintaa (was compliant)
• French: docile (fr), obéissant (fr), accommodant (fr)
• German: entgegenkommend (de), fügsam (de), gefällig (de), gefügig (de), nachgiebig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: εὐπειθής (eupeithḗs)

• Indonesian: patuh (id)
• Irish: comhlíontach
• Latin: obnoxius, morigerus, obsequiōsus
• Maori: ngāwari, ngohe
• Portuguese: cooperante
• Romanian: cooperant, maleabil (ro) m
• Russian: послу́шный (ru) (poslúšnyj)
• Scots: bowsome
• Slovak: poddajný m, povoľný m, poslušný
• Spanish: cumplidor (es), complaciente (es), aquiescente (es)
• Swedish: medgörlig (sv)
• Turkish: itaatkâr (tr), uysal (tr)

compatible with or following guidelines

• Bulgarian: съгласуван (bg) (sǎglasuvan), в съгласие с (v sǎglasie s), съвместим (bg) (sǎvmestim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 适应的

• Czech: vhodný (cs)
• Dutch: (untranslatable; see voldoen (nl))
• Esperanto: konforma, kongrua
• Finnish: vaatimusten mukainen, ohjeiden mukainen
• French: conforme (fr)
• German: den Auflagen entsprechen, die Auflagen erfüllen
• Indonesian: patuh (id)
• Irish: comhlíontach
• Italian: conforme (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zgodny (pl)
• Portuguese: conforme (pt)
• Russian: согласованный (ru) (soglasovannyj)
• Spanish: conforme (es) (a/con), en orden (con), cumpliente (con), acorde (es) (a/con), cónsono m (con), cónsone f (con)
• Swedish: förenlig (sv)
• Turkish: uyan (tr)

Anagrams

• coimplant, complaint