docile
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Definition of docile
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
“Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.”
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adj
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Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
“Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.”
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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.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der. Proto-Italic *dokeō Latin doceō Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -ilis Latin docilisder. Middle French docilebor. Middle English docyle English docile From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”). Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
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