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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.

compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt], compliable
adj
complying, obliging, or yielding
compliantly , compliably adv
compliantness , compliableness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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
Translations
compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] ADJsumiso
compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj
(= ready to respond) to be compliant to sb's demands → se conformer aux exigences de qn
(= submissive) → docile, (très) accommodant(e)
compliant
adjentgegenkommend, gefällig; (= submissive)nachgiebig, willfährig (geh)
compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj (submissive) → arrendevole, acquiescente
compliant [kəmˈplaɪənt] adj (submissive) → arrendevole, acquiescente


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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.
--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--
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.
 
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