acquiescent, ardent, content, enthusiastic, flexible, in the mood, moldable, prompt, responsive, tractable, willinghearted
Definitionadj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
Last update: August 13, 2015
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Docile pupils eager for instruction. [adjective]
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The docile masses of an enslaved nation. [adjective]
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They are renowned for their docile, friendly temperament. [adjective]
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They are docile, gentle animals, who will wander your back garden in search of tender shoots to eat. [adjective]
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When in foreign countries, I have been informed that they are more docile. [adjective]
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Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourselfI can trust you unreservedly. [adjective]
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BLOOM: (Docile, gurgles) I rererepugnosed in rerererepugnant BELLO: (Imperiously) O, get out, you skunk. [adjective]
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Some of them are unmannered, rough, intractable, as well as ignorant; but others are docile, have a wish to learn, and evince a disposition that pleases me. [adjective]
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Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made. [adjective]
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I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind. [adjective]
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