docile
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”). Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊ.saɪl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɑ.səl/, /ˈdɑ.saɪl/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: (US) -ɑːsəl
Adjective edit
docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)
- Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
- Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
Synonyms edit
- (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable
- (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "yielding to control"): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful
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Translations edit
yielding to control
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accepting instructions
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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
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Adjective edit
docile (plural dociles)
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Further reading edit
- “docile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
docile (plural docili)
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Further reading edit
- docile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Adjective edit
docile