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. Falah Russell-IdealRatings:

   We are in the infancy of Shariah-compliant investing in this country.

2. Transportation Safety Board of Canada:

   Preliminary assessment of the CPC-1232-compliant tank cars involved in this occurrence demonstrates the inadequacy of this standard given the tank cars' similar performance to the legacy Class 111 tanks cars involved in the Lac-Mégantic accident.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Judge Amanda Woodcock:

   They made Erwiana Sulistyaningsih compliant and more subservient.