Reverse Dictionary: COMPLIANT

ADJECTIVES
► ABLE compliant, obedient; susceptible to persuasion; accommodating, gracious → c1384 obs.
► BIDDABLE complying, obedient, willing, docile; ready to do what is bidden → 1826
► BUXOM compliant, tractable, obedient; pliant → c1175 obs.
► HEARSUM ► HERSUM compliant, obedient; ready to hear; dutiful, devout → c900 obs.
► MORIGERATE complying, obedient → a1533
► MORIGEROUS compliant, obedient, dutiful, submissive → c1600
► NICE compliant, unwilling to make a fuss or cause trouble → 1950s W. Indies sl.
► OBEDIBLE compliant, submissive, yielding; capable of obedience; obedient, docile → 1622 obs.
► OBSEQUENT compliant, yielding, obedient, submissive → 1520 obs.
► OBSEQUIOUS 1. compliant with the will or wishes of another, esp. of a superior; prompt to serve, please, or follow directions; obedient, dutiful → a1450
2. unduly or servilely compliant; ignobly submissive; manifesting or characterized by servile complaisance; fawning, cringing, sycophantic → 1602
► OLEAGINOUS compliant, subservient; bland, soothing, insinuating, fawning → 1859
► PEREMPTOR insistent on obedience or compliance; also, imperious, dictatorial → 1630 obs.
► PEREMPTORY intolerant of refusal or opposition; insisting on compliance or obedience; imperious, dictatorial → 1590

INTERJECTIONS
► AYE-AYE POPEYE! an exclamation of agreement or compliance → 1990 UK sl.
► AYE-AYE SHEPHERD’S PIE! an exclamation of agreement or compliance → 1990 UK sl.

NOUNS
► BIDDABLENESS compliance, obedience → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OBEISANCE compliance of manner, deportment → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OBSEQUENCE compliance, complaisance, obsequiousness → 1603
► OBSEQUIOUSNESS ready compliance or obedience; eagerness to serve or please; dutiful service → 1447 obs.
► OBSEQUY ready compliance with the will or pleasure of another, esp. of a superior; deferential service → 1432-50 obs.

VERBS
► ACQUIESCE to comply with, to concede; to agree, esp. tacitly; to concur in; to raise no objections to → 1613
► COME TO ONE’S MILK to yield to authority, to comply; to cease to be stubborn → 1927 Amer. dial.
► COME TO TIME to yield to authority, to comply → 1937 Amer. dial.
► GET IN THE BUGGY to comply with requirements; to get on the ball → 1966 Amer. dial.
► KNUCKLE DOWN to comply with, to yield, to submit to → 1735
► MORIGERATE to comply, to obey; to do as commanded →1623 obs.
► OBSEQUE to comply with, to yield to, to obey → 1720 obs.
► OBTEMPER to comply with, to yield to, to obey → c1489 obs.
► OBTEMPERATE to comply with, to yield to, to submit to, obey; to be obedient → 1432
► PLAY PRETTY to act compliantly or amenably → 1820
► PUPPIFY to make compliant and submissive; to fool → 1660 obs.
► STAY IN THE BUGGY to comply with requirements; to get on the ball → 1927 Amer. students’ sl.
► SUE 1. to comply with the conditions of → a1300 obs.
2. to comply with a person’s will, to follow another’s advice or one’s own inclinations or devices → 1362 obs.