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compliant

[ kuh m-plahy-uh nt ]
/ kəmˈplaɪ ənt /
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adjective

complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers.

RELATED WORDS

adamantine, balky, bullheaded, cantankerous, contumacious, determined, die-hard, dogged, grim, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, insubordinate, intractable, intransigent, iron, mulish, obdurate

Nearby words

complexone, compliable, compliance, compliance officer, compliancy, compliant, complicacy, complicate, complicated, complication, complice

Origin of compliant

First recorded in 1635–45; comply + -ant

Related forms

Can be confused

complacent complaisant compliant
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Examples from the Web for uncompliant

  • Mrs. Fuller was as gentle and unobtrusive as her stalwart husband was forceful and uncompliant.

    Daughters of the Puritans|Seth Curtis Beach

British Dictionary definitions for uncompliant

compliant

compliable

/ (kəmˈplaɪənt) /

adjective

complying, obliging, or yielding

Derived Forms

compliantly or compliably, adverbcompliantness or compliableness, noun
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