docile

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more docile

Superlative

most docile

1.
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
Đồng nghĩa: amenable, compliant, teachable, bowsome, buxom, compliant, hearsome, morigerous, obedible, obedient, obsequent, obsequious, tall, toward
2.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

amenable compliant teachablebowsomebuxomhearsomemorigerousobedibleobedient obsequent obsequious tall toward malleable meek submissive tractable manageable

Trái nghĩa

perverse defiant rebellious wilful

Cùng gốc / liên quan

docilenessdocilizationdocilizenondocileundociledocilelydocilitydocent doctor doctoratedoctrinairedoctrinal doctrine documentindoctrinate

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (teach). Compare Portuguese dócil ("docile").