compliant

English

Etymology

From comply +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈplʌɪənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Adjective

compliant (comparative more compliant, superlative most compliant)

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

   Synonyms: yielding, bending, pliant, supple

   The suspect was compliant when arrested.

   Tendon is compliant compared to bone.

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

   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.

Synonyms

• conformant; see also Thesaurus:conformant

Antonyms

• non-compliant, noncompliant

Hypernyms

• biocompliant
• buzzword compliant
• hypercompliant
• Kinnaird compliant
• overcompliant
• privacy compliant
• semicompliant
• standards compliant

Derived terms

• compliancy
• compliantly
• incompliant
• uncompliant

Related terms

• compliance

Translations

willing to comply

Bulgarian: отстъпчив (bg) (otstǎpčiv) Chinese: Mandarin: 顺从的 Dutch: buigzaam (nl), medewerkend (nl), onderdanig (nl) Finnish: myöntyväinen (fi), suostuvainen (fi); ei tehnyt vastarintaa (was compliant) French: docile (fr), obéissant (fr), accommodant (fr) German: entgegenkommend (de), fügsam (de), gefällig (de), gefügig (de), nachgiebig (de) Greek: Ancient: εὐπειθής (eupeithḗs) Indonesian: patuh (id) Irish: comhlíontach Latin: obnoxius, morigerus, obsequiōsus Maori: ngāwari, ngohe Portuguese: cooperante Romanian: cooperant, maleabil (ro) m Russian: послу́шный (ru) (poslúšnyj) Scots: bowsome Slovak: poddajný m, povoľný m, poslušný Spanish: cumplidor (es), complaciente (es), aquiescente (es) Swedish: medgörlig (sv) Turkish: itaatkâr (tr), uysal (tr)

compatible with or following guidelines

Bulgarian: съгласуван (bg) (sǎglasuvan), в съгласие с (v sǎglasie s), съвместим (bg) (sǎvmestim) Chinese: Mandarin: 适应的 Czech: vhodný (cs) Dutch: (untranslatable; see voldoen (nl)) Esperanto: konforma, kongrua Finnish: vaatimusten mukainen, ohjeiden mukainen French: conforme (fr) German: den Auflagen entsprechen, die Auflagen erfüllen Indonesian: patuh (id) Irish: comhlíontach Italian: conforme (it) m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Polish: zgodny (pl) Portuguese: conforme (pt) Russian: согласованный (ru) (soglasovannyj) Spanish: conforme (es) [a/con], en orden [con], cumpliente [con], acorde (es) [a/con], cónsono [con], cónsone [con] Swedish: förenlig (sv) Turkish: uyan (tr)

Anagrams

• coimplant, complaint