Docile vs Listless - What's the difference?
docile | listless | Related terms |
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Docile is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between docile and listless
is that docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.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
* * ----listless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”