compliant
willing to obey or go along
Roots
- com-: with, together, complete, or intensified
- plen / plet: fill, full, complete
Other words with the plen / plet root
- complement: something that completes another thing
- complementary: completing or fitting well with something
- complete: finished; lacking nothing
- completion: the act or state of finishing
- deplete: to use up or empty out
- depletion: reduction by using up
- plenary: complete or fully attended
Compliant began near fulfilling what was asked: the request gets completed so the person goes along.
The compliant form accepted the data only after every required field was filled.
Compliant should not feel like mere weakness. The older shape is fulfill: complete what is required. In modern use, a compliant person or system meets the demand, sometimes too readily.