docile
pronunciation
How to pronounce docile in British English:
UK [ˈdəʊsaɪl]
How to pronounce docile in American English:
US [ˈdɑsl]
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- Adjective:
- willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
- ready and willing to be taught
- easily handled or managed
Word Origin
- docile (adj.)
- late 15c., "easily taught," from Italian or French docile, from Latin docilis "easily taught," from docere "teach" (see doctor). Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.
Example
- 1. But plummeting stock prices are spurring normally docile shareholders to rebel .
- 2. Little girls epitomise a patriarchal society 's ideal of compliant , docile sexuality .
- 3. Tv isn 't just docile ; it 's positively benevolent .
- 4. At home workers are so docile that japanese managers are often unprepared for such spats .
- 5. In the southern boomtown of shenzhen , normally docile legislators have been complaining with unusual vigour .