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Docile vs Submission - What's the difference?

docile | submission |

As an adjective docile

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

As a noun submission is

the act of submitting.

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

    * * ----

    submission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of submitting.
  • The thing which has been submitted.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
  • A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of submitting) acquiescence, capitulation, concession, giving in, submittal, obeyance, yielding * (thing submitted) submittal

    Antonyms

    * (act of submitting) rebellion, control