docile

From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”). Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.saɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.səl/, /ˈdɑ.saɪl/

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• Rhymes: (US) -ɑːsəl

docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

   Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.

• (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable
• (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable

• (antonym(s) of “yielding to control”): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful

• cleido-, coiled, coldie

Learned borrowing from Latin docilis.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.sil/

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• Rhymes: -il

docile (plural dociles)

1. docile

   Near-synonym: obéissant

• docilement
• docilité

• “docile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin docilis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.t͡ʃi.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔtʃile
• Hyphenation: dò‧ci‧le

docile m or f (plural docili)

1. compliant, obedient, docile, meek

   Antonym: indocile

• docilità
• docilmente

• docile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

docile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of docilis