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Compliant

Compliant Meaning & Definition
Compliant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Compliant?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Compliant: acquiescent | amenable | biddable | complying | lamblike | meek | nonresistant | obliging | soft | spiritless | submissive | willing | yielding

Related Terms | Find terms related to Compliant: 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

See Also | manageable | obedient | tractable

Compliant In Webster's Dictionary

\Com*pli"ant\, a. Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. ``The compliant boughs.'' --Milton.

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