- 1
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.
- 2
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
- Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
syn. amenable · biddable · complaisant · compliant · controllable · docile · governable · indulgent · manageable · maniable · meek · passive
ant. authoritarian · bossy · dictatorial · dominant · domineering · imperious · overbearing · defiant