compliable
English
Etymology
Adjective
compliable (comparative more compliable, superlative most compliable)
- bendable; able to bend
- (figurative) Capable of yielding to another, or willing to do so; compliant.
- 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
- 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
References
- “compliable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.