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Docile vs Corrigible - What's the difference?

docile | corrigible |

As adjectives the difference between docile and corrigible

is that docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management while corrigible is able to be corrected or set right.

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

    Related terms

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

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    corrigible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be corrected or set right.
  • (obsolete) Submissive to correction; docile.
    • Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) Deserving chastisement; punishable.
    • He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.
  • (obsolete) Having power to correct; corrective.
    • The corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (able to be corrected) correctable

    Antonyms

    * incorrigible

    Related terms

    * corrigibility

    See also

    * correctable