docile

About 1.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. adjective Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

   Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.

Similar words

yielding tractable teachable tamed tame gentle meek sheeplike sheepish compliant

Often followed by

and as to in than bodies labor people or

Word family

docilely docilities docility