docile
Adjective
- Easily managed or trained; submissive.
- willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
- "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
Adjective Satellite
- ready and willing to be taught
- "docile pupils eager for instruction"
- easily handled or managed
- "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"
Adj
- Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Examples
- Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
- The letter ’E’ was so docile, it fit perfectly at the end of DOCILE for a bingo bonus.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”).
Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
Synonyms
gentle, teachable, amenable, biddable, compliant, docile, malleable, manageable, meek, passive, pliant, submissive, tractable, yielding
Scrabble Score: 9
docile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddocile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
docile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary