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Compliant definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPLIANT, a.
1. Yielding, bending; as the compliant boughs. [See Pliant, which is generally used.]
2. Yielding to request or desire; civil; obliging.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" [ant: defiant, noncompliant]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1642 1. ready or disposed to comply ; submissive <a corrupt regime aided by a compliant press> 2. conforming to requirements <compliant software> • compliantly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. disposed to comply; yielding, obedient. Derivatives: compliantly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Compliant Com*pli"ant, a. Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. ``The compliant boughs.'' --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do. (FORMAL) ...a docile and compliant workforce. = pliant, pliable ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Yielding, submissive, obedient, obsequious. 2. Yielding, obliging, accommodating. See complaisant.

Moby Thesaurus

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