compliant

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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compliant

1640s, from comply.

Example sentences

Measures will also be introduced to stop non-compliant businesses from selling their produce.

Pepper spray could actually have made this safer by somewhat incapacitating the

protesters and making them more compliant.

He had spent the better part of his eight-year regime as president, military

chief and overseer of a compliant parliament.

Most of the teachers felt that their work was to ensure that kids were quiet

and compliant and contained.

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Related Words

supple compliable flexible obedient

obedient obsequious soft

Matching Quote

"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