docile Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
    • the docile masses of an enslaved nation
  2. adjective satellite ready and willing to be taught
    teachable.
    • docile pupils eager for instruction
    • teachable youngsters
  3. adjective satellite easily handled or managed
    gentle.
    • a gentle old horse, docile and obedient

WordNet

Doc"ile adjective
Etymology
L. docilis,fr. docere to teach; cf. Gr. , and L. discere to learn, Gr. learned, knowing: cf. F. docile. Cf. Doctor, Didactic, Disciple.
Definitions
  1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. Obs.
  2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
    The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.

Webster 1913