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Source: gcide
Compliant \Com*pli"ant\, a.
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant
boughs." --Milton.

[1913 Webster]


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Source: wn
compliant
adj 1: disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the
parental will" [ant: {defiant}]
2: willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without
protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a
gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the
parental will" [syn: {acquiescent}, {biddable}]
3: easily influenced or imposed on
4: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek
conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had
the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
[syn: {meek}, {spiritless}]

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Source: moby thes
168 Moby Thesaurus words for "compliant":
abject, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescent,
acquiescing, active, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable,
adjusting, affable, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing,
alacritous, amenable, amiable, appliable, applicable, approving,
ardent, assentatious, assenting, bendable, bending, benevolent,
benign, benignant, complaisant, compliable, complying, conceding,
concessive, conformable, conforming, conscientious, consentient,
consenting, constant, content, cooperative, decent, devoted,
devout, disposed, docile, ductile, duteous, dutiful, eager,
elastic, endorsing, enthusiastic, exploitable, extensible,
extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, faithful, favorable,
favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile,
flexuous, formable, formative, forward, game, generous, giving,
gracious, humble, impressible, impressionable, in the mind,
in the mood, inclined, indulgent, kind, kindly, law-abiding,
like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loyal, malleable,
manipulable, meek, meticulous, minded, mindful, moldable,
nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive,
nothing loath, obedient, obliging, observant, operable,
other-directed, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive, permissive,
plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, practicing, predisposed,
prompt, prone, punctilious, punctual, quick, ratifying, ready,
ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, regardful, resigned,
responsive, reusable, sanctioning, scrupulous, sensitive,
sequacious, servile, shapable, springy, submissive, subservient,
supine, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, true,
unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing,
unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, usable, utilizable,
well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, willed, willing,
willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous


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