docile

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docere (“teach”). Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").

adj

  1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
  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.

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