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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compliant \Com*pli"ant\, adjective Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. ''The compliant boughs.'' --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
compliant
adjective
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
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