docile
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
Other meanings
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.”
Related words
- docileness
- docilization
- docilize
- nondocile
- undocile
- docilely
- docility
Word history
From Latin "docilis".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “docile” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.