sheeplike

Speech parts

1. sheeplike - Adjective

2. sheeplike - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sheepish meek devoted loyal faithful compliant amenable respectful subservient tame obedient docile tractable attentive bovine
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Antonyms

naughty revolutionary proud rebellious stubborn arrogant
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Related terms

sheepy sheeple

Examples

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. Ted Nelson

All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility. Dashiell Hammett

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey

Close letter words and terms

sheeple sheepless sheeplet sheepling sheepman sheepmaster