docile

• accommodating
• acquiescent
• adaptable
• agreeable
• amenable
• amiable
• biddable
• childlike
• complacent
• compliant
• conformable
• constrained
• controllable
• cool
• curbed
• decorous
• disciplinable
• disciplined
• docious
• ductile
• duteous
• dutiful
• easily influenced
• easy
• easygoing
• fawning
• gentle
• governable
• handleable
• humble
• inhibited
• kowtowing
• laid-back
• law-abiding
• manageable
• mannerly
• meek
• mellow
• mild
• obedient
• obeisant
• obliging
• obsequious
• orderly
• placable
• pliable
• pliant
• quiet
• repressed
• resigned
• restrained
• servile
• slavish
• soft
• submissive
• subordinate
• subservient
• surrendering
• tame
• teachable
• tractable
• trainable
• usable
• weak-kneed
• well-behaved
• willing
• yielding

• bad
• balky
• contrary
• contumacious
• defiant
• determined
• disobedient
• disorderly
• disrespectful
• dissident
• dogged
• errant
• froward
• hardheaded
• headstrong
• ill-bred
• ill-mannered
• impolite
• impudent
• incompliant
• inflexible
• insolent
• insubordinate
• insurgent
• intractable
• misbehaving
• mischievous
• mulish
• mutinous
• naughty
• noncompliant
• nonconformist
• obdurate
• obstinate
• obstreperous
• opinionated
• peevish
• perverse
• pigheaded
• rebel
• rebellious
• recalcitrant
• refractory
• resistant
• restive
• rude
• self-willed
• stubborn
• unamenable
• uncontrollable
• uncooperative
• undisciplined
• ungovernable
• unmanageable
• unruly
• untoward
• unyielding
• wayward
• wild
• wilful
• willful

• adjective
  1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
  2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

• The dog was surprisingly docile, even around strangers.
• He had a docile temperament, always willing to listen and learn.
• The horse appeared docile, making it easy for the rider to control.
• Despite her fierce reputation, she was actually quite docile at home.
• The teacher appreciated the docile nature of the students in her class.

acclimatized

• able
• able-bodied
• acclimated
• accommodated
• accustomed
• acquainted
• adapted
• addicted
• adjusted
• altered
• amenable
• attuned
• bent
• biddable
• brawny
• bridled
• broken
• burly
• busted
• capable
• civilized
• conditioned
• confirmed
• conformed
• converted
• corrected
• cultivated
• customized
• disciplined
• docile
• doctored
• domestic
• edited
• enduring
• equipped
• established
• familiar
• familiarized
• fashioned
• fearless
• fine-tuned
• firm
• fit
• fitted
• fresh
• geared
• gentle
• gentle as a lamb
• given to
• grooved
• habilitated
• habituated
• habituated in
• hale
• hardened
• harmless
• harmonized
• harnessed
• healthy
• hearty
• hefty
• housebroken
• in fine fettle
• in good condition
• in good shape
• in the habit
• indefatigable
• inured
• kindly
• lusty
• made over
• manageable
• matched
• meek
• mighty
• mild
• modeled
• modelled
• modified
• muscular
• muzzled
• naturalized
• obedient
• orientated
• oriented
• overcome
• patterned
• phased
• physically fit
• pliable
• pliant
• powerful
• prepared
• primed
• put
• readapted
• readied
• readjusted
• recast
• reclaimed
• recycled
• redesigned
• redeveloped
• redid
• reengineered
• refashioned
• refigured
• refitted
• refocused
• registered
• regulated
• rehearsed
• reinvented
• rejiggered
• remade
• remodeled
• resistant
• revamped
• revised
• reworked
• rigged
• robust
• rooted
• rugged
• seasoned
• settled
• settled in
• shaped
• solid
• sound
• squared
• stalwart
• staunch
• stout
• sturdy
• subdued
• submissive
• substantial
• suited
• tailored
• tenacious
• toughened
• tractable
• trained
• transformed
• tuned
• unafraid
• unflagging
• unresisting
• vigorous
• well
• yoked

accommodated

• abetted
• acclimated
• acclimatized
• accustomed
• acquainted
• acquiescent
• adapted
• adjusted
• agreeable
• aided
• aligned
• alined
• altered
• amenable
• appeased
• applicable
• appropriate
• apt
• arranged
• arrayed
• assisted
• attended
• attuned
• balanced
• barracked
• bent
• bestowed
• biddable
• billeted
• bivouacked
• blended
• blent
• boarded
• bunked
• calm
• camped
• carried
• chambered
• coddled
• combined
• comforted
• compliant
• conciliated
• conditioned
• conformed
• connected
• contained
• converted
• coordinated
• cordial
• corrected
• correlated
• customized
• deferential
• delighted
• docile
• doctored
• domiciled
• dovetailed
• edited
• encamped
• enclosed
• encompassed
• enfolded
• ensconced
• equalized
• equipped
• equitable
• established
• evened
• expedient
• fair
• familiarized
• fashioned
• favored
• felicitous
• fine-tuned
• fit
• fitted
• fused
• geared
• genial
• gentle
• gladdened
• good
• gratified
• habilitated
• habituated
• happy
• harbored
• hardened
• harmonized
• held
• helped
• homed
• housed
• humored
• inclosed
• indulged
• integrated
• inured
• joined
• just
• keyed
• lodged
• long-suffering
• made over
• manageable
• matched
• merged
• modeled
• modelled
• modified
• mollified
• mollycoddled
• naturalized
• nonresisting
• obedient
• obliged
• orchestrated
• ordered
• orientated
• oriented
• pacified
• paired
• pampered
• patient
• patterned
• peaceable
• phased
• philosophical
• placated
• pleased
• pliant
• prepared
• primed
• proper
• proportioned
• put
• put up
• quartered
• quiescent
• quiet
• readapted
• readied
• readjusted
• ready
• recast
• reclaimed
• reconciled
• recycled
• redesigned
• redeveloped
• redid
• reengineered
• refashioned
• refigured
• refitted
• refocused
• registered
• regularized
• regulated
• rehearsed
• reinvented
• rejiggered
• relieved
• relinquishing
• remade
• remodeled
• renouncing
• revamped
• revised
• reworked
• rigged
• right
• roofed
• roomed
• roosted
• rooted
• satisfied
• seasoned
• seated
• secured
• settled
• shaped
• shedded
• sheltered
• squared
• stabled
• standardized
• stoical
• subdued
• submissive
• subservient
• succored
• suitable
• suited
• supported
• synchronized
• synthesized
• tailored
• tame
• tented
• timely
• tolerant
• took
• took in
• toughened
• tractable
• trained
• transformed
• tuned
• unassertive
• unified
• united
• unprotesting
• unresisting
• well-disposed
• willing
• yielding

halterbroken

• broken
• docile
• domestic
• domesticated
• familiar
• gentle
• housebroken
• semidomesticated
• subdued
• submissive
• tame
• tamed
• trained

handleable

• acquiescent
• agreeable
• amenable
• amiable
• biddable
• compliant
• conformable
• constrained
• controllable
• curbed
• decorous
• disciplinable
• disciplined
• docile
• duteous
• dutiful
• governable
• inhibited
• law-abiding
• manageable
• mannerly
• obedient
• obliging
• orderly
• placable
• repressed
• restrained
• soft
• submissive
• surrendering
• tame
• teachable
• tractable
• trainable
• yielding

hanging loose

• acquiescent
• adjustable
• all around
• alleviating
• alterable
• amenable
• basking
• biddable
• bumming
• calming
• can-do
• changeable
• chilling
• chilling out
• comforting
• complaisant
• compliant
• composing
• conformable
• controllable
• convertible
• cooling
• dallying
• dawdling
• de-stressing
• decompressing
• dillydallying
• discretionary
• docile
• droning
• ductile
• easing
• easygoing
• facile
• flexible
• footling
• game
• gentle
• going along with
• going every which way
• governable
• idling
• kicking back
• lazing
• like putty in hands
• loafing
• lolling
• loosening up
• lounging
• malleable
• manageable
• meek
• modifiable
• moldable
• obedient
• open
• persuadable
• plastic
• pliable
• pliant
• putty in hands
• quieting
• relaxing
• relieving
• reposing
• resilient
• resting
• rolling with punches
• settling
• subdued
• submissive
• supple
• tame
• tractable
• tractile
• unbending
• unwinding
• variable
• vegetating
• vegging out
• versatile
• willing
• winding down
• workable
• yielding
• zoning out

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