Synonyms 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.

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

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

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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, submissive, obedient, obsequious

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1. compliantadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, obedient, tractable, submissive, flexible

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1. List of paraphrases for "compliant":

   compatible, conform, docile, consistent, compliance, conformity

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1. Lumber Liquidators:

   60 Minutes out of the 31 samples of Chinese-made laminate flooring, only one was compliant with formaldehyde emissions standards. Some were more than 13x over the California limit.

2. Dan Tench:

   Even if we were to leave the EU entirely, if we were to secure safe harbor designation from the EU, which would seem essential, one imagines that we would have to be more or less compliant with the (EU) regulation.

3. Steve Bannon:

   Today in modern pop culture, you know they call Ted Cruz the Joe McCarthy -- if you want to think of who devils are it's Ronald Reagan and those who name-names at the House Un-American Activities, the Hollywood Ten are heroes right? alger Hiss is a hero, right? Richard Nixon's a villain? Joe McCarthy is a villain. Your book makes very plain that these guys were right. The place was infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll of Soviet military intelligence or fellow-travelers who were kind of compliant in helping these guys get along. I mean, there's absolutely no question of it. How has pop culture so changed it that white is black and black is white?

4. Wesley Ouchi:

   It was objectively unreasonable for officers to have applied this level of force on my sixteen-year-old client, he was cooperative, surrendered, unarmed, non-resisting, compliant, and non-threatening. This conduct is universally unacceptable in any society.

5. Judge Amanda Woodcock:

   They made Erwiana Sulistyaningsih compliant and more subservient.