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Docile vs Domicile - What's the difference?

docile | domicile |

As an adjective docile

is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

As a noun domicile is

a home or residence.

As a verb domicile is

to have a domicile in a particular place.

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

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    domicile

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (formal) A home or residence.
    • The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile ; too bad I was on vacation at the time.
  • (legal) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
    • (Wharton)

    Related terms

    * domiciled * domiciliary

    Verb

  • To have a domicile in a particular place.
    • The answer depends on in which state he was domiciled at his death.
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