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Docile vs Changeable - What's the difference?

docile | changeable |

As adjectives the difference between docile and changeable

is that docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management while changeable is capable of being changed.

docile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
  • Ready to accept instruction or direction.
  • Synonyms

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

    Antonyms

    * (yielding to control): rebellious, wilful

    Derived terms

    * docilely * docility

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    changeable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being changed.
  • Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
  • The weather is very changeable today; it can be bright sunshine, cloudy, windy and rainy in the same half-hour.

    Derived terms

    * changeably * changeability