different between biddable vs unbiddable

English

Etymology

bid +? -able

Adjective

biddable (comparative more biddable, superlative most biddable)

1. Docile, amenable or compliant.
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter, [2]

     The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.

   • 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, Part Two, Chapter XIII, p. 431,

     What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.

2. (bridge) Suitable for bidding.

Translations

Derived terms

• biddability
• biddably
• unbiddable

Anagrams

• ad libbed, ad-libbed, adlibbed

English

Etymology

un- +? biddable

Adjective

unbiddable (comparative more unbiddable, superlative most unbiddable)

1. Not biddable
   • 1998, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love, New York: Hyperion, p. 21,

     No … not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love like there has never been in a play.