compliant
adjUK /kəmˈplʌɪənt/ · US /kəmˈplaɪənt/
Etymology From comply + -ant.
1
Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
- 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.
1 more example
- Station capacity in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam remains a thorny issue, as does obtaining suitable Channel Tunnel-compliant trains.2025 April 16, Ben Jones, “An opening for international high-speed competition”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 13:
3
Of a material Deforming under pressure; yielding.
- Derived terms
- compliancy, compliantly, incompliant, uncompliant
- Related terms
- compliance
- Hypernyms
- biocompliant, buzzword compliant, hypercompliant, Kinnaird compliant, Merton-compliant, overcompliant, privacy compliant, semicompliant, standards compliant