Synonyms for docile
ˈdɒs əl; Brit. ˈdoʊ saɪldocile

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1. docileadjective

   Synonyms:
   amenable, tractable, compliant, meek, submissive, malleable, teachable

   Antonyms:
   wilful

2. docileadjective

   Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

   Synonyms:
   teachable, meek, submissive, malleable, amenable, tractable, compliant

   Antonyms:
   wilful

3. docileadjective

   Ready to accept instruction or direction.

   Synonyms:
   tractable, malleable, amenable, submissive, teachable, compliant, meek

   Antonyms:
   wilful

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1. docile

   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, compliant, 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. docile

   Synonyms:
   compliant, amenable, easily managed, yielding, gentle, quiet, pliant, tractable, teachable, tame

   Antonyms:
   intractable, stubborn, obstinate, self-willed, dogged

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. docileadjective

   willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

   "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"

   Synonyms:
   teachable, gentle

   Antonyms:
   stiff-necked, hardheaded, stroppy, wild, bullheaded, stubborn, pertinacious, strong-willed, unyielding, mulish, intractable, bolshy, pigheaded, persistent, bloody-minded, dogged, determined, contrarious, cross-grained, bullet-headed, dour, obstinate, strong-minded, cantankerous, untamed, unregenerate, tenacious

2. docile, teachableadjective

   ready and willing to be taught

   "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"

   Synonyms:
   teachable, gentle

   Antonyms:
   bloody-minded, strong-willed, bolshy, persistent, obstinate, intractable, wild, cantankerous, cross-grained, determined, bullheaded, hardheaded, dour, stroppy, contrarious, dogged, unyielding, bullet-headed, strong-minded, stubborn, pertinacious, untamed, tenacious, pigheaded, mulish, stiff-necked, unregenerate

3. docile, gentleadjective

   easily handled or managed

   "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"

   Synonyms:
   blue-blooded, aristocratical, gentle, aristocratic, soft, easy, teachable, patrician, blue

   Antonyms:
   contrarious, hardheaded, cantankerous, mulish, intractable, unyielding, stiff-necked, bolshy, tenacious, pigheaded, persistent, untamed, pertinacious, unregenerate, dogged, cross-grained, strong-minded, bloody-minded, bullheaded, stubborn, bullet-headed, wild, determined, stroppy, obstinate, dour, strong-willed

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1. alwinadjective

   to be afraid of accidental eye contact and mistake it for an invitation to "talk"

   gosh, i am feeling docile today - i might be a bit naughty and push someone into the abyss.

   Submitted by coolingcaitlin on February 8, 2023  

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1. docileadjective

   Synonyms:
   teachable, docible, tractable, apt, easily taught

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1. docileadjective

   Synonyms:
   tractable, teachable, gentle, yielding, obedient, submissive

   Antonyms:
   indocile

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1. List of paraphrases for "docile":

   obedient, submissive, compliant, amenable

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1. Marty Mobley:

   It was like, 'Help me. Help me.' It was totally docile and let us touch it. It just (lay) there.

2. Jozsef Richter:

   People stay in their cars, there is no (human-to-human) contact, the animals are docile and used to people.

3. Demetrius Griffin:

   He let off eight rounds, reloaded, let off another eight, reloaded again, he was very docile. In his facial expression, no smiling, laughing, talking.

4. Latin American:

   We regret that the representative of the United States and its docile allies continue to bring to this forum matters that are outside the mandate of the CD, it is not a forum for coup-mongering.

5. Sheriff Dee Anderson:

   He was as compliant and docile as anyone I have ever seen come into a facility, we are hoping that the day comes when justice is done for those families and the victims that were killed.