compliable

English

Etymology

From comply +‎ -able.

Adjective

compliable (comparative more compliable, superlative most compliable)

1. bendable; able to bend
2. (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

capable of bending or yielding

• Japanese: 守って良い (ja) (mamotte yoi), 順守できる (ja) (junshu dekiru)

References

• “compliable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• compilable