docile

Adjective
  1. Willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed (synset 302336651)
    "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
    also:
    • obedient - dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
    • manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
    similar to:
    • meek, tame - very docile
    • sheepish, sheeplike - like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
    • yielding - inclined to yield to argument or influence or control
  2. Ready and willing to be taught (synset 302460707)
    "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
    similar to: manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
    same as: teachable
  3. Easily handled or managed (synset 302397341)
    "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"
    similar to: tame, tamed - brought from wildness into a domesticated state
    same as: gentle

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