adjective

ready to accept control or instruction; submissive.

a cheap and docile workforce

compliant,obedient,pliant,dutiful,willing,passive,submissive,deferential,tame,meek,mild,lamblike,unassertive,unresisting,yielding,cooperative,amenable,accommodating,biddable,persuadable,ductile,manageable,controllable,tractable,malleable,manipulable,easily manipulated,easily handled,like putty in one’s hands,milky,persuasible