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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obedient |
| Synonyms: | docile, easy, flexible, manageable, meek, submissive, tractable, willing, yielding |
| Antonyms: | recalcitrant |
| Main Entry: | complaisant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, amiable, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, easy, easy-going, friendly, generous, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, indulgent, lenient, mild, obliging, polite, solicitous, submissive |
| Notes: | complacent means 'pleased or satisfied with how things are, with how they affect one's self,' 'self-satisfied, smug'; complaisant means 'attempting or eager to please or satisfy,' 'obliging, affable' - complacent thus refers to a state of mind and complaisant to a disposition to behave or conduct oneself in a way that pleases or satisfies others |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, obstinate |
| Main Entry: | conformable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate; matching |
| Synonyms: | adapted, agreeable, alike, amenable, applicable, assorted, comparable, compliant, consistent, docile, fitted, fitting, harmonious, in agreement, like, matched, obedient, orderly, proper, regular, resembling, similar, submissive, suitable, suited, tractable, unified, useable, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, mismatched, nonconforming |
| Main Entry: | dutiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obedient |
| Synonyms: | binding, compliant, conscientious, deferential, devoted, docile, duteous, faithful, incumbent on, obligatory, punctilious, regardful, respectful, reverential, submissive |
| Antonyms: | betraying, disobedient, faithless, irresponsible, undutiful, unfaithful, unrespectful |
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tolerant, permissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, amenable, benign, biddable, charitable, clement, compassionate, compliant, condoning, deceivable, deludable, dupable, easygoing, excusing, exploitable, fleeceable, flexible, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, gullible, humoring, indulgent, kindly, lax, lenient, liberal, light, merciful, mild, moderate, mollycoddling, naive, pampering, pardoning, soft, spoiling, submissive, susceptible, sympathetic, temperate, tractable, trusting, unburdensome, unoppressive, unsuspicious |
| Antonyms: | difficult, impossible, intolerant, onery, strict, unpermissive |
| Main Entry: | elastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, tolerant |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adjustable, airy, animated, bouncy, buoyant, complaisant, compliant, ebullient, effervescent, expansive, flexible, gay, high-spirited, lively, recuperative, resilient, soaring, spirited, sprightly, supple, variable, vivacious, volatile, yielding |
| Antonyms: | difficult, inflexible, intolerant, unadaptable, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | fawning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deferential, groveling |
| Synonyms: | abject, adulatory, bootlicking, bowing, brownnosing, compliant, cowering, crawling, cringing, flattering, humble, ingratiating, kowtowing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, parasitic, prostrate, scraping, servile, slavish, sniveling, spineless, submissive, subservient, sycophant, sycophantic |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cool, disinterested, proud, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | flexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, responsive |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, adjustable, amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, discretionary, docile, gentle, going every which way, hanging loose, like putty in hands, manageable, open, rolling with punches, tractable, variable |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, obstinate, ornery, stern, stubborn, unaccommodating, unadaptable, unresponsive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | good-natured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, easily pleased |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, agreeable, altruistic, amiable, benevolent, bighearted, breezy, charitable, complaisant, compliant, cordial, easy, even-tempered, friendly, good-hearted, good-humored, gracious, helpful, kind, kindly, lenient, marshmallow, mild, moderate, nice, obliging, softie, tolerant, warmhearted, well-disposed, willing to please |
| Antonyms: | bad, mean |
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