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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesconforme et docile
Pronunciation / Transliteration: konfɔʁm et dɔsil
"Elle refusait de mener une vie de femme soumise et stéréotypée."
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Characteristic of or resembling the fictional inhabitants of Stepford; unnaturally compliant, conventional, and submissive, often lacking independent thought or individual personality.
"She looked around the neighborhood at the Stepford wives tending their lawns with mechanical perfection."
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A person who has been reduced to a docile, uniform state of conformity, devoid of critical agency.
"He refused to become a corporate Stepford, blindly following every directive without question."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from Ira Levin's 1972 satirical thriller novel 'The Stepford Wives', which was set in the fictional Connecticut town of Stepford where the women were replaced by compliant, robotic, domestic androids. Over time, the proper noun evolved into an eponym used to describe people, especially women, who exhibit extreme conformity, docility, or mechanical perfection.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Stepford" is said worldwide
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conforme et docile
Transliteration: konfɔʁm et dɔsil
"Elle refusait de mener une vie de femme soumise et stéréotypée."
angepasst
Transliteration: angepasst
"Er wollte kein angepasster Roboter in der Vorstadt sein."
conformista
Transliteration: konformista
"La comunità sembrava uscita da un film di Stepford."
sumiso y obediente
Transliteration: sumiso i obediente
"Tenía una actitud sumisa que recordaba a las esposas de Stepford."
conformista
Transliteration: kõfɔʁmista
"Elas viviam uma rotina robótica e extremamente conformista."
अनुगामी
Transliteration: anugami
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"वह किसी रोबोट की तरह आज्ञाकारी और अनुगामी बन चुकी थी।"
驯顺的
Transliteration: xùnshùn de
Script: 中文汉字
"她拒绝过那种盲目顺从的生活。"
순종적인
Transliteration: sunjongjeok-in
Script: 한국어 한글
"그 마을 사람들은 기계처럼 순종적이었다."
画一的で従順な
Transliteration: gakuichiteki de jūjun na
Script: 日本語
"彼女たちはまるでロボットのように従順だった。"
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