| 单词 | docile |
| 释义 | docile (once / 1452 pages) adj If someone is docile, he is easily taught or handled. If you suddenly became a trouble-maker in class, your teachers would long for the days when you were sweet and docile. Docile comes from Latin root for teaching, docere, so someone docile is easy to teach. A docile student is willing to be taught. A docile animal is easy to handle. If you behave well and do what people tell you to do, you're a docile person. Docile might be a word of praise, but it can also be a criticism of someone for being overly submissive. Some synonyms are amenable and compliant. WORD FAMILYdocile: docilely, docility, docily, indocile+/docility: docilities USAGE EXAMPLESInstead of being sweet and docile, she was snappish and didn’t apologize for it. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The endings were familiar, with the docile tones and search for reasoning. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) England worked hard on a docile pitch but are set to be under pressure for the rest of the match. BBC(Dec 18, 2016) 1adj easily handled or managed a gentle old horse, docile and obedient Syn gentle tame, tamed brought from wildness into a domesticated state 2adj willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed the docile masses of an enslaved nation Syn|Ant obedient dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority meek, tamevery docile sheepish, sheeplikelike or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity yieldinginclined to yield to argument or influence or control manipulable, tractableeasily managed (controlled or taught or molded) obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield inflexible, sturdy, uncompromisingnot making concessions disobedientnot obeying or complying with commands of those in authority bloody-minded, cantankerousstubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate bolshy, stroppyobstreperous bullet-headed, bullheaded, pigheadedobstinate and stupid dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingstubbornly unyielding contrarious, cross-graineddifficult to deal with determineddevoting full strength and concentrated attention to hardheaded, mulishunreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack stiff-neckedhaughtily stubborn strong-minded, strong-willedhaving a determined will intractablenot tractable; difficult to manage or mold 3adj ready and willing to be taught docile pupils eager for instruction Syn teachable manipulable, tractable easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) |
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