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biddable

adj
/ˈbɪdəbəl/

Etymology

From bid + -able.

  1. derived from *gʷʰedʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bidjaną✻
  3. derived from *biddjan✻
  4. derived from bidden
  5. suffixed as biddable — “bid + able”

Definitions

  1. Docile, amenable or compliant.

    • She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.
    • In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.

  2. Suitable for bidding.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at biddable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01biddable02suitable03required04mandatory05commanded06command07obeyed08obey09obedient

A definitional loop anchored at biddable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at biddable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA