different between unassertive vs docile

English

Etymology

un- +? assertive

Adjective

unassertive (comparative more unassertive, superlative most unassertive)

1. Not assertive

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docere (“teach”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??.sa?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.s?l/, /?d??.sa?l/

Adjective

docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

Synonyms

• (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable
• (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable

Antonyms

• (yielding to control): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful

Derived terms

• docilely
• docility

Related terms

• docent
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

Anagrams

• cleido-, coiled, coldie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.sil/
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

docile (plural dociles)

1. docile

Derived terms

• docilement

Further reading

• “docile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.t??i.le/

Adjective

docile (plural docili)

1. compliant, obedient, docile, meek

   Antonym: indocile

Derived terms

• docilità
• docilmente

Further reading

• docile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

docile

1. nominative neuter singular of docilis
2. accusative neuter singular of docilis
3. vocative neuter singular of docilis