compliant

From comply + -ant.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈplʌɪənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈplaɪənt/
• Hyphenation: com‧pli‧ant
• Rhymes: -aɪənt

compliant (comparative more compliant, superlative most compliant)

1. Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

   Synonyms: yielding, bending, pliant, supple, conformable; see also Thesaurus:docile, Thesaurus:obedient

   Antonyms: assertive, incompliant, non-compliant, noncompliant

   The suspect was compliant when arrested.

   Tendon is compliant compared to bone.

2. Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.

   Synonyms: conformant, in line; see also Thesaurus:conformant

   Antonyms: contradictory, incompliant, non-compliant, noncompliant

   The browser is standards-compliant.

   The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

   • 2025 April 16, Ben Jones, “An opening for international high-speed competition”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 13:

     Station capacity in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam remains a thorny issue, as does obtaining suitable Channel Tunnel-compliant trains.

• compliance

• coimplant, complaint