What is another word for docile?
427 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dˈə͡ʊsa͡ɪl], [ dˈəʊsaɪl], [ d_ˈəʊ_s_aɪ_l]Table of Contents
Similar words for docile:- all (adjective)
- amenable (adjective)
- compliant (adjective)
- compliant, submissive (adjective)
- conformable (adjective)
- ductile (adjective)
- dutiful (adjective)
- educable (adjective)
- flexible (adjective)
- gentle (adjective)
- groveling (adjective)
- henpecked (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- lowly (adjective)
- manageable (adjective)
- meek (adjective)
- mild (adjective)
- obedient (adjective)
- orderly (adjective)
- passive (adjective)
- pliable (adjective)
- quiet (adjective)
- resigned (adjective)
- servile (adjective)
- sheepish (adjective)
- submissive (adjective)
- subservient (adjective)
- tame (adjective)
- tractable (adjective)
- unwashed (adjective)
- yielding (adjective)
- docile (noun)
- meek (noun)
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Synonyms for Docile:
adj.
•all (adjective) •amenable (adjective) •compliant (adjective) •compliant, submissive (adjective)- amenable,
- adaptable,
- acquiescent,
- obliging,
- governable,
- accommodating,
- complacent,
- childlike,
- orderly,
- agreeable,
- easygoing,
- weak-kneed,
- docious,
- willing,
- soft,
- easy,
- teachable,
- mellow,
- yielding,
- manageable,
- well-behaved,
- easily influenced,
- usable,
- biddable,
- tractable.
- dove like,
- most dovelike,
- most sweet-tempered,
- more dove-like,
- more sweet tempered,
- softhearted,
- more dovelike,
- more sweet-tempered,
- peaceful,
- more disciplined,
- pacific,
- sweettempered,
- more sweettempered,
- most sweettempered,
- most dove like,
- more dove like,
- most dove-like,
- sweet tempered,
- most disciplined,
- most sweet tempered.
- most weak-kneed,
- most pabulum,
- most weak kneed,
- most milquetoast,
- un-resisting,
- most weakkneed,
- most nothing,
- weak kneed,
- more longanimous,
- most longanimous,
- most zero,
- more weak-kneed,
- most unresisting,
- more zero,
- more unresisting,
- wishy washy,
- longsuffering,
- more weak kneed,
- more milquetoast,
- long suffering,
- wishywashy,
- un resisting,
- more nothing,
- more weakkneed,
- weakkneed,
- more pabulum.
- dutiful,
- in one's pocket,
- at one's beck and call,
- at beck and call,
- in one's power,
- in power,
- on a string,
- in one's clutches,
- well-trained,
- wrapped around finger,
- under control.
- complaisant,
- deferential,
- subordinate,
- attending,
- Genuflecting,
- downtrodden,
- kowtowing,
- curtsying,
- servile,
- devoted,
- inferior,
- browbeaten,
- Subjected,
- feudal.
- more giving in,
- more obeying,
- most givingin,
- most obeying,
- yesser,
- givingin,
- more giving-in,
- more givingin,
- most complying,
- most uncomplaining,
- more complying,
- un complaining,
- more comformable,
- sub missive,
- more uncomplaining,
- sub-missive,
- yessest,
- un-complaining,
- most giving-in,
- most comformable,
- most giving in.
- at one mercy,
- at ones mercy,
- most cowering,
- a slave to,
- most dancing,
- more cowering,
- under one thumb,
- under ones thumb,
- most bootlicking,
- more bootlicking,
- more sycophantic,
- at mercy,
- most sycophantic,
- more dancing.
n.
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- calm,
- at ease,
- composed,
- relaxed,
- at one with,
- nonchalant,
- chilled,
- cool,
- laid-back.
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- wild.
Other synonyms:
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- henpecked.
- compassionate,
- responsive,
- domesticated,
- blue,
- motivated,
- breathing tube,
- placid,
- entrance,
- impressionable,
- formable,
- approaching,
- content,
- scholarly,
- sweetly,
- prone,
- apt,
- conformation,
- permissive,
- forbearing,
- bendable,
- tameable,
- enthusiastic,
- hearty,
- suppressed,
- pleased,
- compliant,
- acquiescence,
- bovine,
- prompt,
- deference,
- conformity,
- liberal,
- favorable,
- surrender,
- patient,
- wormlike,
- Toward,
- Compliable,
- suavely,
- intelligent,
- cordial,
- debut,
- Willed,
- complaisance,
- timid,
- kindly,
- kind,
- easy going,
- conditioned,
- womanlike,
- entryway,
- persuasible,
- aristocratic,
- responsible,
- calmly,
- lightly,
- ready,
- softly,
- favourable,
- spiritless,
- appeasable,
- credulous,
- assenting,
- coming near,
- tolerant,
- reasonable,
- law-abiding,
- lamblike,
- trained,
- eager,
- lenient,
- scholastic,
- answerable,
- repressed,
- all too willing,
- duteous,
- corrigible,
- tender,
- zealous,
- entry,
- respectful,
- quick,
- entranceway,
- patrician,
- gracious,
- long-suffering,
- resignation,
- controllable,
- merciful,
- feminine,
- forward,
- blue-blooded,
- administrable,
- capitulation,
- happy,
- predisposed,
- Towards,
- submission,
- delicate,
- gently,
- observant,
- peacemaking,
- Kind-hearted,
- obedience,
- tamer,
- unforced,
- game,
- meekness,
- graciously,
- harmless,
- suggestible,
- sympathetic,
- broken,
- temperately,
- friendly,
- serene,
- indulgent,
- susceptible,
- accountable,
- womanly,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- prostrate,
- delighted,
- Rulable,
- minded,
- non-militant,
- lax,
- inclined,
- bold,
- fain,
- bright,
- wimpish,
- handler,
- weak,
- withdrawn,
- facile,
- ardent,
- valiant,
- mildly,
- moldable,
- disposed,
- placidly,
- trainer,
- genial,
- dirigible,
- cheering,
- industrious,
- Ovine,
- ladylike,
- subdued,
- trusting,
- compliance,
- cooperative,
- alacritous,
- persuadable,
- aristocratical,
- clever,
- consenting,
- blandly,
- favorably disposed,
- not difficult,
- unwarlike,
- tenderly,
- female,
- bid,
- presentation,
- ready and willing,
- unaggressive,
- Tender-hearted,
- well-disposed,
- studious,
- suasible,
- favorably inclined,
- moderately,
- avid,
- benign,
- receptive.
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Antonyms for Docile:
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adj.
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all
stubborn.
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compliant, submissive
inflexible, obstinate, headstrong, intractable, unyielding, determined, opinionated, uncooperative.
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Other antonyms:
undisciplined, ill-mannered, insurgent, self-willed, disrespectful, firm, impolite, dissident, insolent, resolute, impudent, noncompliant, errant, rude, unamenable, wilful, ill-bred, froward, nonconformist, peevish, untamed, unregenerate, resistant.
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all
Homophones for Docile:
- De Gaulle, disloyal, dacelo, daisy wheel, Dossel, dossal, diesel oil, deckle, decal, ducal, dead axle, descale, dead soul, dizzily, disloyally, dazzle, declaw, dkl, DSL, disallow, diesel, dietetical, day school, decile.