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docilest

docilest is the superlative form of docile.

Meaning of docile

Adjective

docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

  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...1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
  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.

Questions about docilest

What is docilest the superlative form of?
Docilest is the superlative form of docile.

Words near docilest in the dictionary

  1. docibleness
  2. docile
  3. docilely
  4. docileness
  5. dociler
  6. docilest
  7. docilities
  8. docility
  9. docilization
  10. docilize
  11. docilized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: docilest (page history and authors); docile (page history and authors). 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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