biddable

bid·da·ble

adj \ˈbi-də-bəl\

Definition of BIDDABLE

1

: easily led, taught, or controlled : docile

2

: capable of being bid

— bid·da·bil·i·ty \ˌbi-də-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun

— bid·da·bly \ˈbi-də-blē\ adverb

Examples of BIDDABLE

1. The children became less biddable as they grew older.
2. <the elderly widower was one of the more biddable and cooperative residents at the nursing home>

First Known Use of BIDDABLE

circa 1768

Related to BIDDABLE

Synonyms: amenable, obedient, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, submissive, tractable

Antonyms: balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)

Related Words: acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, duteous, dutiful, obliging, placable; soft, surrendering, yielding; fawning, kowtowing, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, subordinate, subservient; decorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderly; constrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained; controllable, disciplinable, governable, handleable, manageable, tame, teachable, tractable, trainable; gentle, meek, mild

Near Antonyms: insurgent, mutinous; dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding; uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild; balky, defiant, perverse, resistant; bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty; ill-bred, undisciplined; dissident, nonconformist; disrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude

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