docile

Borrowed from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docere (“teach”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.sail/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː.səl/, /ˈdɑː.saɪl/

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docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

• (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable
• (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable

• (yielding to control): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful

• docilely
• docility

• docent
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

• cleido-, coiled, coldie

Borrowed from Latin docilis.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.sil/

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• Rhymes: -il

docile (plural dociles)

1. docile.

• “docile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin docilis.

docile (masculine and feminine plural docili)

1. compliant, obedient, mild
2. docile, meek

• indocile

• docilità
• docilmente

docile

1. nominative neuter singular of docilis
2. accusative neuter singular of docilis
3. vocative neuter singular of docilis