docile
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˈdɑːsəl/
:
dócil
- We're worried that people will increasingly find themselves unable to compete with polite, smart, adaptable, quiet, self educating, efficient, docile machines.
- docile and obedient
- docile and compliant
- docile subjects
I've had the most docile, calm, sweet, innocent girl.
- I've had the most docile, calm, sweet, innocent girl.
- Do you like her to be funny like you or, or docile and quiet?
- There's no way to get off by yourself and be a docile white mouse.
- And so they go find a very docile guy who's very much like a boy.
- I have awakened to the fact that the opposition wants me dumb and docile and dependent and broke.
- What the opposition wants is for you to be dumb and dependent and docile.
- It's one of the most docile sharks that it's like one of the most harmless sharks, people.
- But a really impressive electric car can be both really fast and performant and really soft and docile and smooth.
- Another thing that I looked at was the differences in the chemicals emitted from babies heads making men more docile and women more aggressive.
- They may not say the mean things like you don't care and instead you may see a shift into them being more docile or quiet.
- What I imagined first were pruning hooks, something biblical agrarian, a new use for metal, once good for little more than tearing the air from a docile body.
Examples
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Yat Ho's strange docile behavior kept the other two birds at a distance.
Fiction book (1994) -
They're pretty docile.
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Do you like her to be funny like you or, or docile and quiet?
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Most of our patients are quite docile, but others...
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The school workers are more docile and quick in applying themselves to work.
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Maybe it's the cage, but you know, they just look so docile and peaceful.
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My little predators are perfectly docile.
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The lawyer is aggressive and domineering; the man is docile and solicitous.
Fiction book (2002) -
Murphy plodded toward the door like a docile animal being herded out of a barn.
Fiction book (1991) -
The teacher found the docile student easy to instruct during the lesson.
Synonyms
146
1.0
Easy to handle or train and not aggressive
45
1.0
Willing to do what someone in charge tells you
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5.1
Willing to obey others and not argue
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3.5
Willing and able to learn from advice and feedback
12
4.4
Quiet and gentle and not likely to speak up
Easy to teach or control
Antonyms
How Docile
Surface Forms
Etymology
Docile comes from the Latin root docere, meaning 'to teach', and from docilis, 'teachable'. So a docile person or animal is 'easy to teach' and willing to follow directions.