Docile
Antonyms of DOCILE
- opinionated, stubborn, headstrong, impolite, determined, impudent, insurgent, resolute, nonconformist, dissident, resistant, undisciplined, ill-mannered, untamed, obstinate, wilful, ill-bred, insolent, peevish, self-willed, unregenerate, intractable, unamenable, uncooperative, froward, unyielding, disrespectful, rude, noncompliant, errant, firm, inflexible.
Examples of usage:
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It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that a young woman endowed with so fiery and ambitious a nature did not become in the hands of Augustus as docile a political instrument as Livia. "The Women of the Caesars" by Guglielmo Ferrero
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Each transport, when filled to the bursting- point with as- yet- docile cargo, darted away; swinging around to approach Clamer from some previously- assigned direction. "The Galaxy Primes" by Edward Elmer Smith