Word Meanings - BIDDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Obedient; docile.

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• OBEDIENT
  Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command. And floating straight, obedient to the stream. Shak. The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command.
• OBEDIENTIAL
  According to the rule of obedience. An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature. Sir M. Hale.
• DOCILE
  1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. 2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.
• OBEDIENTLY
  In an obedient manner; with obedience.
• INOBEDIENT
  Not obedient; disobedient. Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv.
• DISOBEDIENTLY
  In a disobedient manner.
• DISOBEDIENT
  1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke.
• UNOBEDIENT
  Disobedient. Milton.
• INDOCILE
  Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.