Is docile an insult?

Is docile an insult?

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Docile is not a negative word.

Q. What does docility mean?

1 : easily taught a docile pupil. 2 : easily led or managed : tractable a docile pony.

Q. Is docile good or bad?

Docile is not a negative word. Docile might be a word of praise, but it can also be a criticism of someone for being overly submissive. Some synonyms are amenable and compliant.

Q. Is a bashful nature good?

A bashful nature is a neutral nature meaning it doesn’t give any penalties or bonuses, so you’re not really gaining anything from this nature. Since Haxorus has such a high attack stat, you’re going to want to pick a nature that takes advantage of that. I prefer Mold Breaker on Haxorus personally.

Q. Does docile mean gentle?

If someone is docile, he is easily taught or handled. If you suddenly became a trouble-maker in class, your teachers would long for the days when you were sweet and docile. Docile comes from Latin root for teaching, docere, so someone docile is easy to teach. A docile student is willing to be taught.

Q. Which word is most dissimilar to docile?

antonyms of docile

  • determined.
  • headstrong.
  • inflexible.
  • intractable.
  • obstinate.
  • opinionated.
  • stubborn.
  • uncooperative.

Q. Is docile a positive connotation?

The word docile has a negative connotation when it is used to describe the attribute of being easily manipulated. It has a positive connotation when used to describe a person who is accommodating and polite.

Q. What is another word for docile?

Some common synonyms of docile are amenable, obedient, and tractable. While all these words mean “submissive to the will of another,” docile implies a predisposition to submit readily to control or guidance.

Q. Which word is most similar to effrontery?

Some common synonyms of effrontery are audacity, cheek, chutzpah, gall, hardihood, nerve, and temerity. While all these words mean “conspicuous or flagrant boldness,” effrontery implies shameless, insolent disregard of propriety or courtesy.

Q. Does docile mean slow?

Here the only coherent way to read docile is as meaning “slow-flowing and nonturbulent”—in a word, “calm.”

Q. What is the opposite word of docile?

docile. Antonyms: intractable, stubborn, obstinate, self-willed, dogged. Synonyms: compliant, amenable, easily managed, yielding, gentle, quiet, pliant, tractable, teachable, tame.

Q. What does gregarious mean?

sociable is friendly, outgoing, and gregarious

Q. What is a synonym for potential?

SYNONYMS. possible, likely, prospective, future, probable, budding, in the making. latent, embryonic, developing, dormant, inherent, unrealized, undeveloped.

Q. What is an intractable issue?

From a computational complexity stance, intractable problems are problems for which there exist no efficient algorithms to solve them. Most intractable problems have an algorithm – the same algorithm – that provides a solution, and that algorithm is the brute-force search.

Q. What approach might a programmer take if asked to solve an intractable problem?

Another way that is often used to find solutions to intractable problems is to ignore some of the constraints to find a solution that acts as a compromise. It will not be the optimal solution, but will be usable, and be able to be found in a reasonable amount of time.

Q. What does intractable mean in math?

intractable (comparative more intractable, superlative most intractable) Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed. (mathematics) (of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved. (of a problem) Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage.

Q. What part of speech is intractable?

adjective. not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.

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