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.

Origin of compliant

First recorded in 1635–45; comply + -ant

OTHER WORDS FROM compliant

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH compliant

complacent complaisant compliant

Words nearby compliant

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

Words related to uncompliant

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

Example sentences 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 of compliant

compliantly or compliably, adverb compliantness or compliableness, noun