Word Meanings - COMPLIANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLIANT)

• Docile
• Compliant
• amenable
• easily managed
• yielding
• gentle
• quiet
• pliant
• tractable
• teachable
• tame
• Obliging
• Kind
• considerate
• compliant
• complaisant
• accommodating
• Ready
• Prompt
• alert
• expeditions
• speedy
• unhesitating
• dexterous
• apt
• skilful
• handy
• expert
• facile
• easy
• opportune
• fitted
• prepared
• disposed
• willing
• free
• cheerful
• responsive
• quick
• Submissive
• Obedient
• obsequious
• humble
• docile
• modest
• passive
• acquiescent
• subservient
• Supple
• Pliant
• bending
• flexible
• elastic
• servile
• fawning
• cringing
• adulatory
• sycophantic
• lithe
• limber

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPLIANT)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to COMPLIANT)

• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• SKILFUL
  See SKILFUL
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• WILLING
  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• QUICKEN
  1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her
• LITHERLY
  Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.