docile
Quiet, gentle and easy to control.
docile in a sentence
- The docile old pony stood perfectly still while the smallest children brushed her mane.
- Despite its huge size, the whale shark is docile and lets divers swim calmly beside it.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to docile?
- Afierce
- Bunruly
- Ctame
- Dwild
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C: tame. The other three mean the opposite of docile.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to docile?
- Awild
- Btame
- Cgentle
- Dmeek
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A: wild. The other three mean nearly the same as docile.
Words that mean something similar
tame, gentle, meek
Words that mean the opposite
wild, unruly, fierce
More words about behaviour & manners
- dutiful: Careful to do everything you are supposed to do.
- eavesdrop: To listen secretly to other people's private conversation.
- entice: To tempt someone by offering them something nice.
- exempt: Allowed to skip something that everyone else must do.
- extravagant: Spending or costing far more than is needed.
- feign: To pretend to feel or be something.
- feud: A long, bitter quarrel between two people or groups.
- forbid: To order someone not to do something.
More words to explore
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test