Antonyms for compliant
kəmˈplaɪ əntcom·pli·ant

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1. compliant

   One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.

   Antonyms:
   determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

   Synonyms:
   amenable, docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yielding

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1. compliantadjective

   disposed or willing to comply

   "children compliant with the parental will"

   Antonyms:
   resistant, obstreperous, resistive, recalcitrant, insubordinate, defiant, noncompliant

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1. compliantadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, obedient, tractable, submissive, flexible

How to use compliant in a sentence?

1. Dick Pound:

   It's my expectation that Russian athletes will be in Rio... and I'd be very surprised if the organisations that have to declare them compliant again would not be cooperative in making that happen.

2. Thomas Bach:

   Zero tolerance means all nations and all sports have to be compliant with WADA's rules. On this front, sport requires the support of governments, governments need to make sure that their national anti-authorities are WADA-compliant.

3. Margaret Murray:

   Indeed, the district court itself recognized that administration's decision allows junk insurance to compete directly with comprehensive, Affordable Care Act-compliant insurance plans, that result subverts the health care protections of the ACA. Junk insurance, no matter what it's called, is an inferior and hazardous substitute for comprehensive coverage.

4. Karen Bass:

   You see the man being compliant, you see the police officer -- acting with complete impunity -- looking at the camera while he is literally murdering this man. The symbolism of that was he was so arrogant about what he was doing. He thought,' It's just a black man, nobody is going to do anything to me.'.

5. Kipchoge Keino:

   Kenya has complied with every recommendation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and we are in the process of being declared compliant to its code, it is wrong for Germans to call for Kenya to be barred from Rio when we have offered its athletes training facilities in Kenya. To make it worse, some agents suspected to be encouraging doping among Kenyan athletes are Germans.

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