Docile vs Behaved - What's the difference?
docile | behaved |
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
(behave)
(label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
* Bible, ii. 21
(label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
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, title= To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
(label) To act in a polite or proper way.
As an adjective docile
is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.As a verb behaved is
(behave).docile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable * (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachableAntonyms
* (yielding to control): rebellious, wilfulDerived terms
* docilely * docilityAnagrams
* * ----behaved
English
Verb
(head)behave
English
Verb
- those that behaved themselves manfully
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- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.