compliable

English

Etymology

comply +‎ -able

Adjective

compliable (comparative more compliable, superlative most compliable)

Capable of bending or yielding, or willing to do so; compliant.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
  another compliable mind
- 1746, John Jortin, Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion:
  The Jews […] had made their religion compliable, and accommodated to their passions.

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “capable of bending or yielding”): incompliable

Translations

capable of bending or yielding

Japanese: 守って良い (ja) (mamotte yoi), 順守できる (ja) (junshu dekiru)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compliable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

compilable

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