[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compliant \compli"ant\, a.
   yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "the compliant
   boughs." --milton.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

compliant
     adj 1: disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the
            parental will" ant: defiant
     2: willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without
        protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a
        gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the
        parental will" syn: acquiescent, biddable
     3: easily influenced or imposed on
     4: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
        compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
        those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek
        conformity"- orville prescott; "she looked meek but had
        the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
        syn: meek, spiritless
see also:
defiant acquiescent biddable meek spiritless 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

168 moby thesaurus words for "compliant":
   abject, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescent,
   acquiescing, active, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable,
   adjusting, affable, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing,
   alacritous, amenable, amiable, appliable, applicable, approving,
   ardent, assentatious, assenting, bendable, bending, benevolent,
   benign, benignant, complaisant, compliable, complying, conceding,
   concessive, conformable, conforming, conscientious, consentient,
   consenting, constant, content, cooperative, decent, devoted,
   devout, disposed, docile, ductile, duteous, dutiful, eager,
   elastic, endorsing, enthusiastic, exploitable, extensible,
   extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, faithful, favorable,
   favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile,
   flexuous, formable, formative, forward, game, generous, giving,
   gracious, humble, impressible, impressionable, in the mind,
   in the mood, inclined, indulgent, kind, kindly, law-abiding,
   like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loyal, malleable,
   manipulable, meek, meticulous, minded, mindful, moldable,
   nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive,
   nothing loath, obedient, obliging, observant, operable,
   other-directed, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive, permissive,
   plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, practicing, predisposed,
   prompt, prone, punctilious, punctual, quick, ratifying, ready,
   ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, regardful, resigned,
   responsive, reusable, sanctioning, scrupulous, sensitive,
   sequacious, servile, shapable, springy, submissive, subservient,
   supine, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, true,
   unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing,
   unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, usable, utilizable,
   well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, willed, willing,
   willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous

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