compliable

[kuhm-plahy-uh-buhl]

adjective

Archaic.

1. compliant.

Other Word Forms

• compliableness noun
• compliably adverb
• uncompliable adjective
• uncompliableness noun
• uncompliably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of compliable¹

First recorded in 1625–35; comply + -able

Example Sentences

"So, if we don't get the permits, or if the permits are not acceptable and not compliable, we will have no option but to 'not' go ahead," he said.

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Well, now, Miss Page, it was very disappointmenting for me not to be compliable to your requisition, but I belong to an uplifting club at my school and one of our first and most important relegations is that the mimbers must never do nothing nigrified.

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Mr. Wheler was taken off,—despair perhaps rendering the man, who had been in opposition futilely before, compliable.

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After the Supper was over, the Count renew'd his Addresses to Isabella, who seem'd a little more compliable, but would not allow him the Fredom he desir'd, which had the usual Consequences of encreasing his Inclinations: It growing late, he carry'd her, to his Chamber, where after some Time, she, was oblig'd to go to Bed with him.

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Why, Miss, I fancy, if you were to shew a compliable temper, your friends would shew a compliable one too.

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