You searched for:
“more docile”
docile (adjective), more docile, most docile
1. A reference to willingness and being prepared to be taught; teachable.
2. A tendency to follow instructions, directions, or to be managed.
3. Quiet, easy to control, and unlikely to cause trouble.
2. A tendency to follow instructions, directions, or to be managed.
3. Quiet, easy to control, and unlikely to cause trouble.
Word Entries at Get Words:
“more docile”
docile (DAHS uhl, DAHS il) (adjective), more docile, most docile
1. Ready and willing to be taught; teachable: The teacher's students were docile and eager to learn.
2. Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable: Trudy's co-workers turned out to be a very docile group with whom to work.
3. Amenable to training or handling; easily managed; obedient and non-resistive: Jennifer had a docile, well-behaved pet.
2. Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable: Trudy's co-workers turned out to be a very docile group with whom to work.
3. Amenable to training or handling; easily managed; obedient and non-resistive: Jennifer had a docile, well-behaved pet.
When a child becomes unusually pliant, obedient, manageable, and excessively subservient, he or she may, in short, become docile.
Docile people sometimes wonder why they are not more popular; after all, they never make any trouble for anyone.
Other people usually find nothing admirable or necessarily likable about a docile person who is willing to be pushed around, or who does what she or he is told out of fear of offending others.
It's considered a poor upbringing when parents don't allow a docile youngster some room for self-expression, and for the release of tension and hostility.
4. Etymology: "easily taught", from Italian or French docile, from Latin docilis, "easily taught" and so, "easily managed".
This entry is located in the following unit:
English Words in Action, Group D
(page 3)