comply – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to comply
Participle: complied
Gerund: complying

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	comply
we	Let's comply
you	comply

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to act in accordance with expectations

blow with the wind, conform, fall in line, fall in with, float with the stream, follow the crowd, go along to get along, go with the flow, knuckle under, submit

to accept instruction or command

accede, acquiesce, assent, conform, obey, submit, yield

To yield assent

agree, accede

to clasp in the arms with affection

accoll, amplect, beclip, clip, coll, complect, cwtch, embrace, enfold, enhalse, fall on someone's neck, fathom, glomp, halse, hug, infold, oxter, press, squeeze, umbeclap

accede

follow, conform, observe, submit, assent

Antonyms

to reject instruction or command

accede, acquiesce, assent, conform, obey, submit, disobey, yield

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. early 14c., from O.Fr. compli, pp. of complir, from L. complere "to fill up" (see complete). Meaning infl. by ply. Originally "to fulfill, carry out," sense of "consent" began c.1600 and may have been a reintroduction from It., where complire had come to mean "satisfy by 'filling up' the forms of courtesy.
2. From Italian complire, Catalan complir (“to complete, fulfil; to carry out”), Spanish cumplir (“to complete, fulfil”), (alternatively from Old French compli), from Latin complēre, from compleō (“to finish, complete; to fulfil”), from com- (prefix indicating completeness of an act) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near; by, with”)) + pleō (“to fill; to fulfil”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)).
3. The word is very close to the French verb complaire which means to satisfy or to please. The word is also cognate with Old French complir (“to accomplish, complete; to do”) (modern French accomplir (“to accomplish, achieve”)). Compare complete, compliment. See: Italian 'complire', Valencian 'complir', Spanish 'cumplir', Old French 'complir', French 'accomplir'.

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