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  • 101ungovernable — *unruly, intractable, refractory, recalcitrant, willful, headstrong Analogous words: *contrary, perverse, froward, wayward: contumacious, *insubordinate, rebellious, factious Antonyms: governable: docile Contrasted words: submissive, subdued,… …

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  • 102amenable — adj 1. agreeable, reasonable, persuadable; compliant, pliant, flexible, conformable, adaptable; yielding, acquiescent, submissive, deferential, obedient; docile, manageable, governable, tractable. 2. liable, accountable, answerable, chargeable,… …

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  • 103conformable — adj 1. corresponding, like, resembling, similar; harmonious, agreeable, congruous, congruent, consonant, consistent with; appropriate, suitable, fit, befitting, proper, meet. 2. compliant, acquiescent, submissive, yielding; malleable, ductile,… …

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  • 104corrigible — adj 1. reformable, correctible, remediable, emendable, reparable, improvable, curable, treatable; teachable, trainable, educable; changeable, amendable, flexible, adaptable. 2. amenable, tractable, pliant; submissive, acquiescent, yielding,… …

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  • 105handy — adj 1. accessible, available, at hand, on hand, close at hand, at one s fingertips, within reach; convenient, nearby, next door, just around the corner. 2. useful, helpful, serviceable, employable, expedient, practicable, functional, beneficial,… …

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  • 106malleable — adj 1. extensile, extensible, ductile, tractile, plastic, stretchable; bendable, flexible, flexile, flexuous, pliant, pliable, whippy; elastic, supple, lithe, limber, willowy, lissom; yielding, bending, shapable, moldable, fictile. 2. adaptable,… …

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  • 107manageable — adj governable, tractable, controllable; corrigible, impressionable, susceptible, persua sible; receptive, amenable, teachable, trainable, educate, tamable; flexible, pliant, compliant; namby pamby, weak, insipid, wishy washy; pusillanimous,… …

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  • 108meek — adj 1. humble, lowly, modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unpresuming, unassuming, free from pride, without arrogance, unostentatious. 2. deferential, obliging, complaisant, compliant, conformable, agreeable, biddable, willing; submissive,… …

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  • 109obedient — adj 1. compliant, acquiescent, submissive, yielding, deferential, Rare. morigerate, moriger ous; dutiful, duteous, law abiding, rule abiding, loyal, faithful; conforming, cooperative, responsive, agreeable; supple, malleable, ductile, pliant;… …

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  • 110plastic — adj 1. moldable, easily molded, fictile, soft, clayey, claylike, ductile, shapeable. 2. creative, artistic, imaginative, inventive, inspired, original; expressionistic, clever, innovative; perceptive, feeling, intuitive. 3. impressionable,… …

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