Docile vs Timid - What's the difference?
docile | timid |
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
Lacking in courage or confidence.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19
As adjectives the difference between docile and timid
is that docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management while timid is lacking in courage or confidence.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
* * ----timid
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
