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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
  • adjective Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Teachable; easily taught; quick to learn; amenable.
  • Tractable; easily managed or handled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
  • adjective Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
  • adjective Ready to accept instruction or direction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective easily handled or managed
  • adjective ready and willing to be taught
  • adjective willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin docilis, from docēre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin docilis, from docere 'teach'.

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Examples

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  • Every policy discussed to date has as its objective feeding people where they are and forcing them to remain docile, even when and if starving, by armed forces.

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  • Her eyes had never wandered from his face; she had stood in docile wise looking at him and answering his questions and listening, won by the commentary she read in his face on what her friend was saying.

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  • -- but I have always associated the word docile with cows.

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  • They seem to have been a somewhat negative people, generally described as docile, gentle, generous, and indolent.

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  • For the man with one leg, it is to be said that he is more docile, which is to be desired.

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