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Docile vs. Submissive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Docile and Submissive

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Docile

Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.

Submissive

Inclined or willing to submit.

Docile

Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.

Submissive

Obedient or passive.

Docile

Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.

Submissive

(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices.
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Docile

Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.

Submissive

(rare) One who submits.

Docile

Teachable; easy to teach; docible.

Submissive

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
Not at his feet submissive in distress,Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.

Docile

Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
The elephant is at once docible and docile.

Submissive

Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.
With a submissive step I hasted down.
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Docile

Willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
The docile masses of an enslaved nation

Submissive

Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;
Submissive servants
A submissive reply
Replacing troublemakers with more submissive people

Docile

Ready and willing to be taught;
Docile pupils eager for instruction
Teachable youngsters

Submissive

Willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent

Docile

Easily handled or managed;
A gentle old horse, docile and obedient

Submissive

Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses
She has become submissive and subservient

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