Compliant
[kəm'plaɪənt]
Definition
(adj.) disposed or willing to comply; 'children compliant with the parental will' .
Typist: Rowland--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.
Typist: Paul
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Yielding, submissive, obedient, obsequious.
Checker: Nicole
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SUBMISSIVE]
Edited by Georgina
Examples
- He wrote to Leverrier in reference to the errors of the radius vector and received a satisfactory and sufficiently compliant reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Surely a mild, a compliant, an unutterably tranquil and harmless old lady! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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