adj
biddable
Biddable (adj) means willing to do as you are told; easy to manage.
adj
1
Willing to do as you are told; easy to manage.
"What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption."
— Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (2005)
"In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not."
— Helen Simpson (1933)
2
Able to be bid for.
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What is the meaning of biddable?
"biddable" (adj) means willing to do as you are told; easy to manage.
What is another word for biddable?
Other words for "biddable" include meek, tractable, amenable, docile, pliant, acquiescent.
What is the opposite of biddable?
The opposite of "biddable" is disobedient.
What are the different meanings of biddable?
"biddable" has 2 main meanings: 1. Willing to do as you are told; easy to manage; 2. Able to be bid for.
