Clues for the word "DOCILE"
We've had 50 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 100 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 23, 2026.
Definition of docile
- a. - Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
- a. - Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
Referring Clues
- Easy to control
- Like pets, ideally
- Easily managed
- Mild-mannered
- Tractable
- Like petting-zoo animals
- Readily trained
- Submissive
- Easy to manage
- All too willing
- Obedient
- Unlikely to make waves
- Hardly headstrong
- Calm
- Tame
- Easy to handle
- Compliant
- Easily led about
- Yielding
- Tame, as a pet
- Lamblike
- Not likely to bite
- Like sheep
- Like animals in a petting zoo
- Easily taught
- Gentle
- Easy to manage, as a pet
- Pliable
- Pliant
- Easily controlled
- Meek
- Some crocodiles, when disturbed, can be harmless
- Cod lie around, quite harmless
- It's manageable when wrongly coiled
- Easily managed party on Channel Islands with the French
- Willing to learn from medical man, the Italian head of embryology
- Tame code broken, broken by the Italian
- Easy to control party and country, not hard
- Not ferocious
- Easily led
- Willing to be led
- Far from ferocious
- Placid
- Being untidily coiled will do no harm
- Easy to handle, like an animal
- Tame, as an animal
- Easily tamed
- Unlikely to cause a stir, say
- Unlikely to bite
- Like animals in a petting zoo, ideally
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 11, 2025
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 13, 2023
- LA Times - June 28, 2023
- New York Times - June 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 03, 2022
- New York Times - December 03, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 31, 2022
- New York Times - July 15, 2022
- New York Times - October 06, 2021
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