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compliant

[kuhm-plahy-uhnt]

Origin

adjective

complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.

manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers.

Origin:
1635–45; comply + -ant

Related forms

com·pli·ant·ly, adverb

o·ver·com·pli·ant, adjective

pre·com·pli·ant, adjective

qua·si-com·pli·ant, adjective

qua·si-com·pli·ant·ly, adverb

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un·com·pli·ant, adjective

un·com·pli·ant·ly, adverb

COLLAPSE

Can be confused: complacent, complaisant, compliant.

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World English Dictionary

compliant or compliable (kəmˈplaɪənt)

—*adj*
	complying, obliging, or yielding

compliable or compliable

—*adj*

com'pliantly or compliable

—*adv*

com'pliably or compliable

—*adv*

com'pliantness or compliable

—n

com'pliableness or compliable

—n

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Word Origin & History

compliant

1640s, from comply.

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"Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just as easily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody—not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come."

-Barbara Coloroso

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