obedient
adjectives
dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
"an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
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willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest
"too acquiescent to challenge authority"
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quick to comply
"I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare
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willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
"a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";
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prepared to accurately process date and time data between and into the 20th and 21st centuries
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inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
"submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
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having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
"good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"
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willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
"the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
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easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
"tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
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