docile
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der. Proto-Italic *dokeō Latin doceō Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -ilis Latin docilisder. Middle French docilebor. Middle English docyle English docile From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”). Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
Definitions
Ready to accept instruction or direction
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymamenable
- synonymbiddable
- synonymcomplaisant
- synonymcompliant
- synonymcontrollable
- synonymdocile
- synonymgovernable
- synonymindulgent
- synonymmanageable
- synonymmaniable
- synonymmeek
- synonympassive
- antonymauthoritarian
- antonymbossy
- antonymdictatorial
- antonymdominant
- antonymdomineering
- antonymimperious
- antonymoverbearing
- antonymdefiant
- antonymobstinate
- antonymperverse
- antonymrebellious
- antonymrecalcitrant
- neighbordocent
- neighbordoctor
- neighbordoctorate
- neighbordoctrinaire
- neighbordoctrinal
- neighbordoctrine
- neighbordocument
- neighborindoctrinate
- neighborhumble
- neighborobedient
- neighborservile
- neighborsycophantic
Derived
docilely, docileness, docility, docilization, docilize, nondocile, undocile
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at docile. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at docile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at docile
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