Usually means: Easily taught, led, or managed.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word docile:

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  1. docile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. docile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. docile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. docile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. docile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Docile, docile: Wordnik
  7. docile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. docile: Wiktionary
  9. docile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. docile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. docile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Docile, docile: Dictionary.com
  13. docile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. docile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Docile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. docile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. docile: Rhymezone
  18. docile, docile, docile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. docile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. docile: Free Dictionary
  21. docile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. docile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. docile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. docile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. docile: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. docile: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See docilely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
adjective:  Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

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