Antonyms for docile
ˈdɒs əl; Brit. ˈdoʊ saɪldocile

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1. docileadjective

   Antonyms:
   wilful

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

2. docileadjective

   Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

   Antonyms:
   wilful

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

3. docileadjective

   Ready to accept instruction or direction.

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

   Antonyms:
   wilful

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. docile

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. docileadjective

   willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

   "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"

   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

   Synonyms:
   teachable, gentle

2. docile, teachableadjective

   ready and willing to be taught

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

   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

   Synonyms:
   teachable, gentle

3. docile, gentleadjective

   easily handled or managed

   "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"

   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

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

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1. docileadjective

   Antonyms:
   indocile

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

How to use docile in a sentence?

1. John Stewart Mills:

   A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

2. Eli Boroditsky:

   It is amazing how docile it was. I was petting it.

3. Corey Knowlton:

   I think people think of it as this docile thing, but you are dealing with an extremely athletic animal that can do whatever it wants to you very quickly.

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. Michel Foucault:

   The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

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