biddable
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 8
/ˈbɪdəbəl/
Definition of biddable
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Docile, amenable or compliant.
“She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.”
“The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.”
“In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.”
“What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.”
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adj
-
Docile, amenable or compliant.
“She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.”
“The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.”
“In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.”
“What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.”
- Suitable for bidding.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From bid + -able.
Words you can make from biddable
110 playable · top: DABBLED (13 pts)
Best play dabbled 13 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
13 words5-letter words
16 words4-letter words
33 words- ABBE 8 pts
- BABE 8 pts
- BIBE 8 pts
- BLAB 8 pts
- BLEB 8 pts
- ABED 7 pts
- BADE 7 pts
- BALD 7 pts
- BEAD 7 pts
- BIDE 7 pts
- BLED 7 pts
- ABLE 6 pts
- BAIL 6 pts
- BALE 6 pts
- BEAL 6 pts
- BILE 6 pts
- BLAE 6 pts
- DEAD 6 pts
- DIED 6 pts
- AIDE 5 pts
- DALE 5 pts
- DEAL 5 pts
- DEIL 5 pts
- DELI 5 pts
- DIAL 5 pts
- DIEL 5 pts
- IDEA 5 pts
- IDLE 5 pts
- LADE 5 pts
- LAID 5 pts
- LEAD 5 pts
- LIED 5 pts
- ILEA 4 pts
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