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Adjective docile has 3 senses
- docile - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
Antonyms: stubborn, bloody-minded, cantankerous, bolshy, stroppy, bullheaded, bullet-headed, pigheaded, contrarious, cross-grained, determined, bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding, hardheaded, mulish, stiff-necked, strong-minded, strong-willed
- docile, teachable - ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
Antonym: intractable (indirect, via tractable)
- docile, gentle - easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"
Antonyms: wild, untamed (indirect, via tame)
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