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Docile vs Unprotesting - What's the difference?

docile | unprotesting |

As adjectives the difference between docile and unprotesting

is that docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management while unprotesting is not protesting; compliant, docile.

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

    * * ----

    unprotesting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not protesting; compliant, docile.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Frank Richard Stockton, title=The Girl at Cobhurst, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting , and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Edwin Bjorkman, title=The Soul of a Child, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Just as the parental attitude toward the nearest neighbours suggested a kindly but unsentimental tolerance of inferiors, so it became unmistakably tinged with a slightly jealous but unprotesting submission to superiors whenever the lower floors were reached. }}