docile

Modifies a noun

• creature: The name of the site comes from the common leopard shark, a docile creature that lies in the sand surrounding the pinnacle.
• nature: They make good pets as well as good show birds as they have a docile nature and are very easy to tame.
• animal: They are docile, gentle animals, who will wander your back garden in search of tender shoots to eat.
• temperament: They are renowned for their docile, friendly temperament.
• bird: Gentle and docile bird, very easy to tame if acquired at a young age.
• canopy: A large, docile canopy is probably better to start with than a faster ' swoop machine ' .

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: On balance, for a relatively inexperienced jumper with a relatively docile canopy, an RSL is a good idea.
• quite: I was quite self-conscious but, as the horses were quite docile and very happy horses, they helped me by being very accepting.
• very: Toby has proved to be very docile, except with other ferrets.
• so: Eustace found him not so docile in his lessons as Edward.
• fairly: On a fairly docile wicket the OC tail played out the final overs with few alarms.
• too: I sense this partly because he has been too docile of late - which is entirely out of character.

Used with adjective complement

• become: And [ H ] quite hastily changed his tune, becoming almost docile.
• look: And the dog doesn't look very docile either.
• keep: Leo Strauss thought hoi polloi could justifiable be kept docile by lies, and the biggest one is religion.