Definitions for Docile

Docile doc·ile

Spelling: [dos-uh l; British doh-sahyl]
IPA: /ˈdɒs əl; British ˈdoʊ saɪl/

Docile is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in Docile (cdeilo).

Definitions for Docile

adjective

  1. easily managed or handled; tractable:
  2. readily trained or taught; teachable.

Origin of Docile

1475-85; Latin docilis readily taught, equivalent to doc(ēre) to teach + -ilis -ile

Examples for Docile

She also features a more natural face than the one of docile serenity so often bestowed on the Queen of Heaven.

"As docile as Daisy" might have been a proverb in the neighborhood, so general was this view of her nature.

The tabloids demand that Kate Middleton be as docile as Jane Seymour, whose personal motto was “Bound to obey and serve.”

He was not used among his docile Canadians to any such speech as this.

She had been a docile pupil, but was incapable of any real progress.

The middle classes,” Satyarthi once told the BBC, want “cheap, docile labour.

As a mother—and a former rebellious teen in my own docile way—I know this story is a lot more complicated than the headlines.

Carrico recalls that the detainees were actually compliant and docile that first day.

But for all that they were docile, contented and, within their limitations, not unhappy.

But Alice was supposed to be a widow; and Alice was so meek, so docile, so motherly.

Word Value for Docile
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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