compliantly
1
4.6
- adverb
- /kəmˈplaɪəntli/
:
cumplidamente
- He compliantly completed all the paperwork required for the application process.
Examples
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Both quickly and compliantly changed sides, and Hatch later omitted this controversy from the discussion of "Missiles" in his memoirs.
Blog text (14) -
At the meeting, everyone compliantly agreed to the new rules laid out by the manager.
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The hostages then, under their captors' guns, filed compliantly out of the bus and onto the plane.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the next days, Gorbachev compliantly legitimized these measures.
Academic text (1992) -
At first, she lay compliantly in bed, working her fingers like crochet needles against the silence.
Fiction book (2002) -
They had never talked about the strange phenomenon of the model willingly taking off her clothes and standing compliantly before the attentive eyes of strangers.
Fiction book (1996) -
He now goes to Hyland Hospital as compliantly as any lobotomized outpatient.
Fiction book (1990) -
Where is the scrutiny of the media when they are compliantly trusting in a president—a former oil executive—who is invading a nation with more oil reserves than in all of North America?
Academic text (2003) -
When the walls whisper, "There must be more money!" (230), Paul responds compliantly, although he does not understand what they mean; he confuses luck sent from God with the hard-won bargain of psychic knowledge paid for with human life.
Academic text (2007) -
The students followed the teacher's instructions compliantly during the test.
Synonyms
21
3.7
In a way that shows you do what you should do
12
2.7
In a willing way to do what someone says
1
5.3
In a quiet, humble way that shows you obey someone
1
5.5
In a calm, obedient way that follows instructions
1
8.2
You do what someone tells you without asking questions
In a way that agrees with rules or standards
How Compliant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Compliantly comes from comply, which comes from the Latin root complere meaning 'to fill' or 'complete', the same root in complete. So to act compliantly is to meet what rules ask, in other words to follow them.