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compliant
adjective com·pli·ant \-ənt\
: willing to do whatever you are asked or ordered to do : ready and willing to comply
: agreeing with a set of rules, standards, or requirements
Full Definition of COMPLIANT
1
: ready or disposed to comply : submissive <a corrupt regime aided by a compliant press>
2
: conforming to requirements <compliant software>
— com·pli·ant·ly adverb
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First Known Use of COMPLIANT
1642
Related to COMPLIANT
- Synonyms
- amenable, biddable, obedient, conformable, docile, law-abiding, submissive, tractable
- Antonyms
- balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
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