biddable
/ˈbɪdəbəl/
biddable adjective: docile, amenable or compliant.
Adjective
biddable (comparative more biddable, superlative most biddable)
- 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.1889, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter
- Synonyms:
- complaisant, pliant, tractable, amenable, compliant, controllable, docile, governable, indulgent, manageable
- Suitable for bidding.
biddable meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
biddable in Tamil
- கீழ்ப்படிதலுள்ள, ஆட்டம் கேட்கக்கூடிய, ஏலத்தில் விலைக்குக் கோரக்கூடிய
biddable in Malayalam
- compliant, obedient, acquiescent
- ആജ്ഞാനുവർത്തിയായ, അനുസരണയുള്ള, വരുതിയുള്ള, വശ്യ, വരുതിയിൽ നിൽക്കുന്ന, അനുസരിക്കുന്ന
Examples of biddable in a sentence
- 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.1933, Helen Simpson, chapter 5, in The Woman on the Beast:
- What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, Part Two, Chapter XIII, p. 431:
Synonyms of biddable
Forms of biddable
| comparative | more biddable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most biddable |
Origin of biddable
From bid + -able.
Words formed from biddable
Questions about biddable
- What does biddable mean?
- Biddable means docile, amenable or compliant.
- What is biddable in Tamil?
- Biddable in Tamil is கீழ்ப்படிதலுள்ள, ஆட்டம் கேட்கக்கூடிய, ஏலத்தில் விலைக்குக் கோரக்கூடிய. See Biddable meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use biddable in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is biddable?
- Biddable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce biddable?
- Biddable is pronounced /ˈbɪdəbəl/.
Words near biddable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: biddable (page history and authors); biddable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); biddable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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