What's the difference between agreeable and docile?

Agreeable


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
  • (a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
  • (a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
  • (a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) Others in more agreeable confines should take this opportunity to load up on trans-fats and get set for what should be a cracker.
  • (3) Results indicated that the FFM personality dimensions of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Agreeableness were most apparent in the DSM-III-R conceptualizations of the personality disorders.
  • (4) Although the oral environment with high humidity and high temperature was not agreeable for the sensors, resolution was estimated at better than 3 microns including the effects of system drift.
  • (5) They notably need, in agreement with the Institutions, to: carry out ambitious pension reforms and specify policies to fully compensate for the fiscal impact of the Constitutional Court ruling on the 2012 pension reform and to implement the zero deficit clause or mutually agreeable alternative measures by October 2015; adopt more ambitious product market reforms with a clear timetable for implementation of all OECD toolkit I recommendations, including Sunday trade, sales periods, pharmacy ownership, milk and bakeries, except over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, which will be implemented in a next step, as well as for the opening of macro-critical closed professions (e.g.
  • (6) PUVA is an effective and agreeable therapy for recalcitrant psoriasis.
  • (7) For instance, Joe Orton's plays could never be performed again, as the diaries published after his death are explicit about why he found Tangiers in the 1960s such an agreeable location for vacations.
  • (8) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
  • (9) The difference toward lower agreeableness was not significant when controlling for multiple comparisons.
  • (10) Both schizophrenics and personality disordered patients were significantly less agreeable in childhood than their respective controls.
  • (11) Agreeableness This personality dimension includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection and other pro-social behaviours.
  • (12) Producing sufficient analgesia and having, all told, comparable side-effects, this method was experienced by all patients as being more agreeable than the previously used oral mode of application.
  • (13) The minister is agreeable to discuss other matters,” she said.
  • (14) Crucially, and here no one would have missed the significance, "the president invited Narendra Modi to visit Washington at a mutually agreeable time to further strengthen our bilateral relationship," said a government spokesperson.
  • (15) They perch temporarily in Britain because it has both a hyper-relaxed attitude to "wealth generation" and is a very agreeable place to live – you even get invited to Tory fundraising events.
  • (16) Slow recoveries can be monitored for even longer if agreeable with the patient.
  • (17) In the evaluation of the correlation between standardized uric acid level and the YG 12 personality traits, significant correlation was observed in "Lack of agreeableness" and "Rhathymia".
  • (18) A 444leucine to proline mutation detected by a NciI polymorphism in the human glucocerebrosidase gene was studied to investigate the correlation of the three clinical phenotypes of Gaucher disease with this mutation in 11 Japanese patients with Gaucher disease (type I, 8 patients; type II, 1 patient; type III, 2 patients) and to determine the feasibility of the use of genomic probe DNA for carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis in 8 Japanese families with Gaucher disease and agreeable to family study (type I, 6 families; type III, 2 families).
  • (19) The photodamage on cells was also studied with 3 T 3 mouse cells (conversion), showing agreeable results to that with liver cancer cells, which suggests that ALSPC's photocytotoxic effect is nonselective to cell types.
  • (20) The AWA is a short little statute, giving federal courts the power to “issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” The FBI argues that the AWA empowers a court to order Apple to create custom software to circumvent the security on an iPhone possessed by one of the San Bernadino shooting suspects.

Docile


Definition:

  • (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
  • (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of injected bovine insulin and glucose were assessed using an ethopharmacological methodology applied to social encounters by isolated male Swiss mice with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (2) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (3) offense in subjects paired with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (4) The sufficient force and length of this transfer, associated with its direct course by redirection through the interosseous membrane make it a docile, reliable motor unit as shown by the 16 cases studied.
  • (5) The animal is docile and easy to care for; it has an ideal heart size, a high cardiac output and a long life expectancy.
  • (6) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
  • (7) I wasn’t there for riding lessons and the instructions I was given were limited to how to start, aim and stop the docile beast.
  • (8) A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe anemia, which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves.
  • (9) Severity and duration of immunosuppressiveness depended upon the LCMV isolate and the mouse strain used: LCMV-WE and LCMV-Docile were most, whereas LCMV-Armstrong was in general least immunosuppressive.
  • (10) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
  • (11) We have previously shown that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes regulate susceptibility to lethal disease due to infection with the LCMV-docile isolate derived from the LCMV-UBC strain.
  • (12) The other virus, termed docile, killed few mice after the standard intracerebral inoculation, and could persist in the mice for 6 mo or more.
  • (13) He secured the appointment of a docile prime minister, Abu Mazin, who he hoped was ready to do what Arafat was not - go to war against the Islamic militants without any assurance that in return the Israelis would make any worthwhile concessions in the peace-making.
  • (14) A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time).
  • (15) Because docility-receptivity to social influence-contributes greatly to fitness in the human species, it will be positively selected.
  • (16) How did Britain turn so docile, so passive, so obedient?
  • (17) The promoters have long since cottoned on to the commercial potential of protest music; you’d have to be very determined and energetic to make yourself authentic and visible without them.” The decline of radical politics in the 1990s alongside the rise of New Labour undoubtedly contributed to folk music’s new docility, the genre offering little in the years when the Occupy movement and anti-Iraq war demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest.
  • (18) After 3 wk, a group of the five highest ranking cows from each lot were combined into a new aggressive lot; two groups of subordinate cows formed a docile lot.
  • (19) Resistance to the acute lethal disease caused by the docile strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus varies widely between different mouse strains.
  • (20) "We have had the classic docile, obedient, feminine look and we are all sick to the back teeth of it."