Compliant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compliant \Com*pli"ant\, a.
     Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant
     boughs." --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  compliant
       adj 1: disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the
              parental will" [ant: {defiant}]
       2: 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" [syn: {acquiescent}, {biddable}]
       3: easily influenced or imposed on
       4: 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"
          [syn: {meek}, {spiritless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  168 Moby Thesaurus words for "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