Synonyms for docile
ˈdɒs əl; Brit. ˈdoʊ saɪl

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1. docile(adj)

   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, teachable(adj)

   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, gentle(adj)

   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. docile(adjective)

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

   Antonyms:
   wilful

2. docile(adjective)

   Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

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

   Antonyms:
   wilful

3. docile(adjective)

   Ready to accept instruction or direction.

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

   Antonyms:
   wilful

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. docile

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

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. docile(a.)

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. docile(a)

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

   Antonyms:
   indocile

PPDB, the paraphrase database(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   obedient, submissive, compliant, amenable

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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. 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.

3. 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.

4. Eli Boroditsky:

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

5. Jozsef Richter:

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

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