COMPLIANT DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
compliant adj 1: disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" [ant: defiant, noncompliant] compliant - lajom Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) compliant 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary compliant 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 English Explanatory Dictionary compliant kəmˈplaɪənt adj. disposed to comply; yielding, obedient. øøcompliantly adv. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Compliant \Com*pli"ant\, a. Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. ``The compliant boughs.'' --Milton. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms compliant a. 1. Yielding, submissive, obedient, obsequious. 2. Yielding, obliging, accommodating. See complaisant. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 168 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 |
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