Docile vs. Submissive
Difference Between Docile and Submissive
Docile➦
Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
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Submissive➦
Inclined or willing to submit.
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Docile➦
Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.
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Submissive➦
obedient or passive.
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Docile➦
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
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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.
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Submissive➦
(rare) One who submits.
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Docile➦
Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
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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.
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Docile➦
Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
The elephant is at once docible and docile.
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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
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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
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Docile➦
ready and willing to be taught;
docile pupils eager for instruction
teachable youngsters
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Submissive➦
willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
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Docile➦
easily handled or managed;
a gentle old horse, docile and obedient
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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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