dociler
dociler is the comparative form of docile.
Meaning of docile
Adjective
docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)
- 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...1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
- 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.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable
- Antonyms:
- perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful
Questions about dociler
- What is dociler the comparative form of?
- Dociler is the comparative form of docile.
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