Meaning of COMPLIANT
| Pronunciation: | | kum'plIunt
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- [adj] disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"
- [adj] evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
- [adj] easily influenced or imposed on
- [adj] willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the parental will"
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| | Synonyms: | | acquiescent, amenable, biddable, complying, lamblike, meek, nonresistant, obliging, soft, spiritless, submissive, willing, yielding |
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| | Antonyms: | | defiant, noncompliant | | |
| | See Also: | | manageable, obedient, tractable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*pli"ant\, a.
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. ``The compliant
boughs.'' --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | abject, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, active, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, affable, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, amiable, appliable, applicable, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, bendable, bending, benevolent, benign, benignant, complaisant, compliable, complying, conceding, concessive, conformable, conforming, conscientious, consentient, consenting, constant, content, cooperative, decent, devoted, devout, disposed, docile, ductile, duteous, dutiful, eager, elastic, endorsing, enthusiastic, exploitable, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, faithful, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, forward, game, generous, giving, gracious, humble, impressible, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, indulgent, kind, kindly, law-abiding, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loyal, malleable, manipulable, meek, meticulous, minded, mindful, moldable, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nothing loath, obedient, obliging, observant, operable, other-directed, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive, permissive, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, practicing, predisposed, prompt, prone, punctilious, punctual, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, regardful, resigned, responsive, reusable, sanctioning, scrupulous, sensitive, sequacious, servile, shapable, springy, submissive, subservient, supine, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, true, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, usable, utilizable, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous |
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