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[ kuhm-plahy-uhnt ] / kəmˈplaɪ ənt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR compliant ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivecomplying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature. manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers. Origin of compliantFirst recorded in 1635–45; comply + -ant OTHER WORDS FROM compliantcom·pli·ant·ly, adverbo·ver·com·pli·ant, adjectivepre·com·pli·ant, adjectivequa·si-com·pli·ant, adjective qua·si-com·pli·ant·ly, adverbun·com·pli·ant, adjectiveun·com·pli·ant·ly, adverb WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH compliantcomplacent, complaisant, compliant Words nearby compliantcomplex wave, compliable, compliance, compliance officer, compliancy, compliant, complicacy, complicate, complicated, complication, complice Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for compliantThe problem is, for this doctrine to succeed, the world must be compliant. Blame The Obama Doctrine For Iraq|Stuart Gottlieb|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the compliant reports that Loewen was ready for action a week later. Terry Lee Loewen, the Mellow Kansas Man Who Dreamed of Jihad|Michael Daly|December 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST Financial firms want less regulation and defanged or compliant regulators. Mystery Solved: Here’s Why Big Business Keeps Supporting Republicans Even as Republicans Destroy the Economy|Daniel Gross|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST Chávez was a master at keeping his allies and potential rivals off balance and compliant. Hugo Chávez’s House of Cards|Mac Margolis|March 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Firearms manufacturers simply found easy ways around the ban by marketing “compliant” weapons. Another Massacre’s Gun Law Lesson, From Stockton, Calif., Survivors|Michael Daly|December 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST Where is room now for anything but fear and trembling—a deep anxiety to be lowly, obedient, compliant? The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians|Robert Rainy We laboured under the impression that you were to be compliant as best suits the love we have ever borne to your community. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino|George C. Williamson The latter are very humble and compliant to whatever his Lordship should order. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 28 of 55)|Various Indolent, and in compliant mood, with languid curiosity and half an hour to spare, we assented. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series|John Addington Symonds For James clung with a desperate tenacity to the hope of finding a compliant Parliament. History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8)|John Richard Green
British Dictionary definitions for compliant
adjectivecomplying, obliging, or yielding Derived forms of compliantcompliantly or compliably, adverbcompliantness or compliableness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to compliantdocile, flexible, willing, easy, manageable, meek, submissive, tractable, yielding |