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Definition: Compliant |
CompliantAdjective1. Disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will". 2. Willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the parental will". 3. Easily influenced or imposed on. 4. Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "compliant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonyms: CompliantSynonyms: acquiescent (adj), biddable (adj), meek (adj), spiritless (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: defiant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Obedience | Adjective: obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call; under beck and call, under control. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Compliant |
| English words defined with "compliant": acquiescent, Appliable ♦ biddable ♦ Compliable, Compliantly, Consentingly ♦ Incompliant ♦ meek ♦ spiritless, stooge, subservient ♦ Toward. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "compliant": 404 compliant ♦ compliant mooring ♦ debianize ♦ Enterprise JavaBeans ♦ Green Book CD-ROM ♦ JavaServer Pages, Joint Test Action Group ♦ LynxOS ♦ pathname separator, PowerPC Platform, Pthreads ♦ qdjanus ♦ SPARC International, Inc. ♦ White book CD-ROM, Windows sockets ♦ Yellow Book CD-ROM. (references) |
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Health | Continence requires a compliant bladder and active sphincteric mechanisms, such that maximum urethral pressure always exceeds intravesical pressure. (references) | |
Business | The Piraeus Bank Group of Companies offers a secure (SSL/128bit) mechanism that is also compliant to the Electronic Secure Transactions (SET) protocol developed and promoted by Visa International and MasterCard International. (references) | |
Another Hungarian company, ProfiTrade 90 has also developed its own Certificate Authority product, “jSure” being compliant with the X.509 international standard of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as well as with Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) and Identrus infrastructure. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | The Government, acting through compliant courts, used the prohibition of material that encroaches on the honor and dignity of a person to harass and apply pressure on the independent media. (references) |
Congo | During the year, the Government threatened to shut down private radio stations, allegedly because they were not compliant with administrative requirements of the Press law; however, no stations were closed by year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Chile | However, Chile's intellectual property regime is not WTO/TRIPS compliant. (references) |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | Salvadoran authorities have drafted legal changes to make the IPR laws more TRIPS compliant. (references) |
CHILE | New WTO compliant laws regarding the taxation of distilled spirits have been passed by the Chilean congress. (references) | |
POLAND | These new regulations are less advantageous for investors than the old rules, but more compliant with EU mandates. (references) | |
Trade | Lebanon | Bank credits are closely monitored by the Banking Control Commission (BCC). BCC is compliant with most of the CORE principles of the Basel Committee on banking control and ensures that all banks comply with Basel regulations on capital adequacy ratio. (references) |
Thailand | Thailand's emphasis on exporting makes compliance with international standards important to companies manufacturing here . As of June 2001, 3,323 companies have been certified to be in compliance with ISO 9000 international standards, which represents an 88 percent increase from 2000 (1,770 companies) . Four hundred companies have been certified as compliant with ISO 14000 standards; this figure represents an increase of 51 percent from 2000 (265 companies) . In addition, there are 63 Thai food processors that have been certified to be in compliance with the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | Trafficking victims are kept compliant through involuntary confinement, confiscation of travel documents, debt bondage, and physical abuse. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Compliant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.15% of the time. "Compliant" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.15% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.85% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "compliant": 404 compliant ♦ be compliant ♦ compliant mooring ♦ compliant vs defiant ♦ compliant wrist ♦ Y2K compliant ♦ year 2000 compliant. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "compliant": architecture-compliant, corba-compliant, cose-compliant, group-compliant, ltd-compliant, non-compliant, omg-compliant, posix-compliant, taligent-compliant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "compliant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i urtë (acquiescent, canny, docile, ductile, meek, mild, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, silent, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, tame, wise), i dëgjuar (celebrated, docile, famous), i bindur (biddable, certain, cocksure, committed, convinced, dedicated, docile, ductile, manageable, obedient, sequacious, submissive, well-behaved, wieldy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مساير, مطيع (conformable, dutiful, manageable, obedient, submissive), مطاوع, مذعن (acquiescent, obedient, pliable, submissive, yielding), لين العريكة (compliance, docility, ductile, manageable, pliable, tractable). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | услужлив (accommodating, complaisant, helpful, obliging, serviceable), угодлив (unctuous), сервилен (sequacious, servile, slavish, subservient), отстъпчив (complaisant, concessive, conciliatory, conformable, easygoing, facile, indulgent, malleable, pliable, yielding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 服从 (Compliance, Obedient, Obey, Obeyed, Obeying, Subjected, Subjecting, submissive). (various references) | |
Czech | servilní (obsequious, servile, subservient), povolný (acquiescent, conforming, docile, pliable, pliant, supple, tractable), poddajný (amenable, docile, floppy, lithe, meek, pliable, pliant, submissive, supple, tame, yielding), ochotný (accommodating, forthcoming, helpful, obliging, ready, ungrudging, willing). (various references) | |
Danish | slæk forankring (compliant mooring), leddelt platform (compliant platform), elastisk håndled (compliant wrist), elastisk fortøjning (compliant mooring), eftergiveligt håndled (compliant wrist). (various references) | |
Dutch | soepele verankering (compliant mooring), scharnierend platform (compliant platform), millenniumproof (millennium proof, millennium-compliant, millennium-safe, year 2000 compliant), millennium-bestendig (millennium proof, millennium-compliant, millennium-safe, year 2000 compliant), millenniumbestendig (millennium proof, millennium-compliant, millennium-safe, year 2000 compliant), geleed platform (compliant platform), flexibel polsgewricht (compliant wrist). (various references) | |
Finnish | sopuisa (accommodating, peaceable), säyseä (gentle, meek, quiet, well-behaved), peräänantavainen, myöntyväinen (accommodating, indulgent, permissive, yielding), mukautuva (accommodating, adaptable). (various references) | |
French | conciliant, accommodant. (various references) | |
German | gefällig (accommodating, accommodatingly, complaisant, complaisantly, compliantly, favorable, favourable, graceful, gracefully, helpful, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, winsomely), willfährigen. (various references) | |
Greek | συμμορφούμενοσ (complier, conformer), μαλακόσ (crumby, malleable, meek, mellow, mild, quaggy, smooth, soft, softy, squashy, subdued, unctuous, waxen), υποχωρητικόσ (nonresistant, pliable, recessive, weak-kneed, yielding), ενδοτικός, ενδίδων, δουλοπρεπήσ (cringer, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתרצ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | engedékeny (acquiescent, complacent, complaisant, facile, forgiving, gracious, indulgent, lenient, manageable, permissive, placating, pliant, submissive, tractable, unresisting, yielding), előzékeny (accommodating, affable, complacent, complaisant, considerate, courteous, engaging, obliging). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tunduk (subject). (various references) | |
Italian | compiacente (accommodating, accommodatingly, complaisant, easygoing, obliging, pleasant), remissivo (submissive), arrendevole (accommodating, docile, pliable, toward, yielding), accondiscendente. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '０００年問題対策済み (Y2K compliant). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にせ"ね"も" いたいさくすみ (Y2K compliant). (various references) | |
Korean | 분 부한. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ompliantcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | condescendente (acquiescent, condescending, facile, yielding), complacente (acquiescent, complacent, indulgent, sympathetic, yielding). (various references) | |
Romanian | complezent (amiable, complaisant), care încuviinţeazã, supus (acquiescent, duteous, dutiful, dutifully, humble, meek, meekly, obedient, obediential, passive, subject, submissive, submissively, supple, tame, yielding), îngãduitor (facile, gracious, indulgent, kind, lenient, patient, tolerant, yielding). (various references) | |
Russian | уступчивый (acquiescent, concessive, facile, flexible, pliable, supple). (various references) | |
Scottish | sochar (compliant disposition, instability of purpose, silliness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | popustljiv (clement, complaisant, concessive, deferent, easeful, indulgent, lenient, liberal, permissive, placable, sparing, weak-kneed, yielding). (various references) | |
Spanish | complaciente (accommodating, accommodatingly, indulgent, obliging, pleasant, willing, yielding), sumiso (amenable, meek, obedient, submissive), obediente (duteous, dutiful, obedient), dócil (amenable, biddable, docile, gentle, manageable, meek, mild, obedient, pliable, pliant, tame, tractable, yielding). (various references) | |
Swedish | eftergiven (acquiescent, conformable, fond, indulgent, lenient, permissive, pliable, pliant, weak-kneed). (various references) | |
Turkish | yumuşak başlı (amenable, blancmange, docile, dovelike, flexible, flexile, good tempered, kind, meek, obedient, pliable, pliant, soft, toward), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), itaatkâr (conformable, obedient, observant, submissive). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | піддатливий (accessible, amenable, applicant, flexible, malleable, plastic, pliant, ready, sequacious, squeezable, supple, waxen, waxy), поступливий (accommodating, appeasable, concessive, easy, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding), догідливий (adulatory, ancillary, courtly, obsequious, officious, oily, sneaking, supple). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hay chiều phục tùng mệnh lệnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | clemens, clemente, clementes, clementia, clementibus, clementis, conveniens, convenientes, convenientia, convenientibus, obsequens, obsequiosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "compliant": compliantly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "compliant": incompliant, noncompliant. (additional references) | |
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"Compliant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: campliant, commlink, compalint, compilant, complaient, complainte, complant, compleat, compleent, Compleynt, compliane, compliat, complient, complin, complyant, comprimat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "compliant" (pronounced kumplī"unt) |
| 6 | -p l ī" u n t | pliant. |
| 5 | -l ī" u n t | client, reliant. |
| 4 | -ī" u n t | defiant, giant, supergiant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: complaint. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: complain, platonic. | |
-2 letters: apomict, campion, capitol, caption, coalpit, complin, implant, lampion, limacon, maintop, oilcamp, optical, optimal, paction, potamic, ptomain, tampion, timpano, topical. | |
-3 letters: action, alnico, anomic, atomic, atonic, atopic, camion, caplin, cation, catlin, catnip, citola, coital, copalm, impact, latino, lipoma, maloti, manioc, manito, mantic, oilcan, oilman, optima, pitman, plaint, pliant, pontil, potman, talion. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: complaints. | |
+2 letters: amylopectin, compilation, complainant, complaisant, compliantly, implication, incompliant, toponymical. | |
+3 letters: amylopectins, compellation, compilations, complainants, complexation, complicating, complication, componential, cosmopolitan, implications, incompatible, incompatibly, incomputable, incomputably, kleptomaniac, noncompliant, pinealectomy, proclamation, undiplomatic. | |
+4 letters: amplification, campanologist, compellations, complaisantly, complexations, complications, complimentary, compositional, computational, conceptualism, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, cosmopolitans, endolymphatic, incompatibles, kleptomaniacs, microplankton, neoplasticism, noncompatible, nondiplomatic, paleomagnetic, pneumatolytic, proclamations, recompilation, uncomplicated, unproblematic. | |
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