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单词 indocile
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indocileadj.

/ɪnˈdəʊsʌɪl//ɪnˈdɒsɪl/
Etymology: < French indocile (15th cent.), or < Latin indocilis , < in- (in- prefix4) + docilis docile adj.
Unwilling or unapt to be taught; not readily submitting to instruction or guidance; intractable.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant
unbuxoma1250
unbowsomec1290
sturdy13..
wildc1350
stubbornc1386
unbaina1400
stoutc1410
kimeta1450
staffish?a1513
untractable1538
intractable1545
sullen1577
restiff1578
indocile1603
resty1603
hot-mouthed1609
immorigerous1623
intractive1623
uncompliable1626
restivea1628
non-complying1649
uncompliant1659
incompliant1706
unobliging1707
recalcitrant1797
unbiddable1825
stocky1836
recalcitrary1861
calcitrant1866
non-cooperative1867
recalcitrating1870
ropeable1870
non-cooperating1895
bolshie1918
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > that cannot be trained
indisciplinable1600
indocile1603
undisciplinablea1652
unlickable1845
untrainable1864
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xx. 43 Men have reason to checke the indocile libertie of this member.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 15 Indocil intractable Fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and is proof against Demonstration it self.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. iii. 39 He had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. i. 20 We are indocile to put up with grief, however.
1884 J. Ruskin Pleasures of Eng. 20 The Lombards..were sternly indocile.

Derivatives

inˈdocileness n. indocility (Bailey 1727).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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