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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lenient, giving |
| Synonyms: | able to live with, big*, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, considerate, easy, easygoing, favorable, fond, forbearing, gentle, going along with, going easy on, gratifying, kind, kindly, liberal, merciful, mild, overpermissive, permissive, soft-shelled, tender, tolerant, understanding |
| Antonyms: | abstaining, moderate, moderating, strict, tempering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malleable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, go-with-the-flow, governable, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, putty in hands, rolls with punches, soft, submissive, supple, tractable, tractile, transformable, workable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, rigid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | obedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-behaved; submissive |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, amenable, at one's beck and call, attentive, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, deferential, devoted, docile, docious, duteous, dutiful, faithful, governable, honoring, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, law-abiding, loyal, obeisant, obliging, observant, on a string, pliant, regardful, resigned, respectful, reverential, sheeplike, subservient, tame, tractable, under control, venerating, well-trained, willing, wrapped around finger, yielding |
| Antonyms: | contrary, disobedient, insolent, misbehaving, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious |
| Main Entry: | obsequious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | groveling, submissive |
| Synonyms: | abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous |
| Main Entry: | oily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | bland*, cajoling, coaxing, compliant, fulsome, glib, gushing, hypocritical, ingratiating, insinuating, obsequious, plausible, servile, slick, smarmy, smooth, smooth-tongued, suave, supple, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | hateful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lifeless, inactive |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, going through motions, hands off, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, moony, motionless, nonresistant, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unassertive, unflappable, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it, yielding |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | active, dynamic, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily influenced |
| Synonyms: | amenable, bending, compliant, docile, ductile, flexible, giving, impressionable, influenceable, malleable, manageable, moldable, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, unflappable |
| Main Entry: | pliable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable, adaptable |
| Synonyms: | compliant, docile, ductile, easily led, easy, flexible, impressionable, limber, lithe, malleable, manageable, manipulable, moldable, obedient, plastic, pliant, putty, receptive, responsive, rolling with the punches, spongy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, rigid, stiff, unadaptable, unbendable, unpliable, unpliant, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | resigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enduring, passive |
| Synonyms: | accommodated, acquiescent, adapted, adjusted, agreeable, amenable, biddable, calm, compliant, cordial, deferential, docile, genial, gentle, long-suffering, manageable, nonresisting, obedient, patient, peaceable, philosophical, pliant, quiescent, quiet, ready, reconciled, relinquishing, renouncing, satisfied, stoical, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, tolerant, tractable, unassertive, unprotesting, unresisting, well-disposed, willing, yielding |
| Antonyms: | intolerant |
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