See docile on Wiktionary
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"text": "Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.",
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"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "поня́тливый"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "poslušan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "poučljiv"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "dócil"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "lydig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "foglig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "uysal"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "accepting instructions",
"word": "uslu"
}
],
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}
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"word": "docilement"
},
{
"word": "docilité"
}
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},
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"name": "lbor"
}
],
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{
"form": "dociles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"French entries with incorrect language header",
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"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:French/il",
"Rhymes:French/il/2 syllables",
"fr:Personality"
],
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{
"text": "Near-synonym: obéissant"
}
],
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"docile"
],
"links": [
[
"docile",
"#English"
]
]
}
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},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-il"
}
],
"word": "docile"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "docilità"
},
{
"word": "docilmente"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "la",
"3": "docilis"
},
"expansion": "Latin docilis",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin docilis.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "docili",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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"name": "it-adj"
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"hyphenation": [
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],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "indocile"
}
],
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"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
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],
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],
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[
"compliant",
"compliant"
],
[
"obedient",
"obedient"
],
[
"docile",
"docile#English"
],
[
"meek",
"meek"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈdɔ.t͡ʃi.le/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔtʃile"
}
],
"word": "docile"
}
{
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{
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"name": "head"
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"lang_code": "la",
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{
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
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"word": "docilis"
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],
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],
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[
"docilis",
"docilis#Latin"
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"nominative",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "docile"
}
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