compliableadj.
/kəmˈplʌɪəb(ə)l/ 1. Apt or inclined to comply; disposed to agree and act in accord; compliant. ? Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective]
go-by-ground?a1300
thrall1398
abjectc1430
manly?c1430
servicious1440
serviceable1483
servile1537
tame1563
slavish1565
demiss1572
submissive1572
cringing1579
fawning1585
incrouching?1593
vassal1594
scraping1599
obsequious1602
spaniel1606
observing1609
deprostrate1610
supplea1616
vernile1623
shrugging1629
wormy1640
compliable1641
thrall-like1641
obeisant1642
inservient1646
truckling1656
cringeling1693
benecking1705
subservient1714
footman-like1776
bingeing1805
sidling1821
toadying1863
crawlsome1904
toadyish1909
crawling1941
ass-kissing1942
the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [adjective] > complying or conceding
accordantc1350
obeisantc1390
comingc1576
easya1616
concessive1632
compliable1641
concessory1641
compliant1642
condescentious1651
conceding1656
complying1668
favourable1734
concessional1765
society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > compliant
ablec1384
obedientc1400
supplec1405
accordinga1425
plianta1425
serviablea1425
appliable1449
bowablec1449
applicant?c1500
pliablea1513
applying?1529
flexible?1531
maniablea1604
correspondenta1616
compliable1641
compliant1642
complaisant1647
flexile1651
complacential1658
complying1668
commode1674
complaisential1689
applicable1702
complacent1790
unprotesting1792
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 How complyable and obsequious soever she found them.
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 35 Not the joyning of another body will remove lonelines, but the uniting of another compliable mind.
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 42 Make him vary, or put a plyable, compliable Tongue into his mouth.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. II. 113 His place supplied by one of a more compliable disposition.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective] > that brings into agreement or harmony > that can be brought into agreement
alliable1543
reconciliable1609
concurrible1611
reconcilable1612
sortablea1642
compliable1642
conciliable1645
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [adjective] > making conform > able to be made to conform
frameable1559
compliable1642
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 49 If this were all, perhaps it were a complyable matter.
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. §30 66 Any thing that is compliable with the Dictates of the noble Des-Cartes.
1746 J. Jortin Disc. Truth Christian Relig. i. (R.) The Jews, by their own interpretations, had made their religion compliable and accommodated to their passions.
Derivatives
comˈpliableness n.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > compliancy
correspondence1530
suppleness?1570
pliantness1578
appliableness1587
correspondency1587
flexibleness1623
complacence1626
complacency1651
complaisance1651
pliancy1663
compliance1667
compliableness1684
flexibility1703
complaisancy1710
compliancy1765
pliability1768
1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 208 Its suppleness and compliableness to cleave to that which is stronger.
comˈpliably adv.
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