OBEDIENTIAL Synonyms

• showing deference

• willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

• ready and willing to be taught

• easily handled or managed

• willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect

• capable of being controlled

• easily influenced

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

• very docile

• evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant

• capable of being influenced or formed

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

• inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

• easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

• responsive to suggestions and influences

• a verbal act of admitting defeat

• the act of conceding or yielding

• inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

• lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

• tending to give in or surrender or agree