biddable
Collocations
3ADJ.
most
BIDDABLE + NOUN
creature, soil
ADV.
quite
Definitions
adj
Docile, amenable or compliant.
She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.
The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.
Suitable for bidding.
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Synonyms
adjective — willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.
WiktionaryThe conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable
WiktionaryIn the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.
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