docile

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdəʊ.saɪl/    美 /ˈdɑ.səl/|/ˈdɑ.saɪl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
    — With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence. He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission to her entreaty; and walking with a feeble gait, and looking back, with a tremble, at the room in which he had been so long shut up, and where he had seen the picture in the glass, passed out with her into the hall.
  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.

词形变化

more docile comparative most docile superlative

词汇关系

近义词
amenable biddable complaisant compliant controllable docile governable indulgent manageable maniable meek passive pliant rulable tractable yielding
反义词
authoritarian bossy dictatorial dominant domineering imperious overbearing defiant obstinate perverse rebellious recalcitrant wilful incompliant incontrollable indocile intractable nonamenable noncompliant noncontrollable nondocile nonindulgent nonpassive nonpliant nonyielding unamenable unbiddable uncomplaisant uncompliant uncontrollable undocile ungovernable unindulgent unmanageable unmeek unpassive unpliant unrulable untractable unyielding
下位词
obedient servile sycophantic
衍生词
docilely docileness docility docilization docilize nondocile undocile
相关词
docent doctor doctorate doctrinaire doctrinal doctrine document indoctrinate humble

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *dokeō
Latin doceō
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -ilis
Latin docilisder.
Middle French docilebor.
Middle English docyle
English docile
From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”).
Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
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