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Docile

//ˈdəʊ.saɪl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.

    "With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence. He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission to her entreaty; and walking with a feeble gait, and looking back, with a tremble, at the room in which he had been so long shut up, and where he had seen the picture in the glass, passed out with her into the hall."

  2. 2
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed wordnet
  2. 2
    easily handled or managed wordnet
  3. 3
    ready and willing to be taught wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”). Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").

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