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compliant

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com·pli·ant  (km-plnt)
adj.
Disposed or willing to comply; submissive.
com·pliant·ly adv.
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Adj.1.compliant - disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"
manageable - capable of being managed or controlled
obedient - dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
willing - disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers"
defiant, noncompliant - boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"
compliant
adjective obedient, willing, accepting, yielding, obliging, accommodating, passive, cooperative, agreeable, submissive, conformist, deferential, acquiescent, complaisant, conformable
Translations
Spanish compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj → sumiso; conforme
French compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj → docile, très accommodant(e)
German compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj → gefällig, entgegenkommend
Italian compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj → acquiescente, arrendevole
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A horse was in waiting to receive the princess, who was mounted behind one of the clerks, and thus conveyed, coy but compliant, to the fortress.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
--At this gilded, falsified populace, whose fathers were pickpockets, or carrion-crows, or rag-pickers, with wives compliant, lewd and forgetful:-- for they are all of them not far different from harlots--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
A mild, a compliant, an unutterably tranquil and harmless old lady, who never by any chance suggested the idea that she had been actually alive since the hour of her birth.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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