obedient

Meanings

Plural: obedients

Adjective

• dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; ; ; ; - Edmund Burke
  • "an obedient soldier"
  • "obedient children"
  • "a little man obedient to his wife"
  • "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"

Adj

• Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.

Noun

• One who obeys.

Synonyms

bowsome, buxom, compliant, dutiful, hearsome, hersum, morigerous, obedible, obedient, obsequent, obsequious, tall, toward

Antonyms

argumentative, breachy, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, dominant, froward, immorigerous, inobedient, insubmissive, insubordinate, insurgent, nonobedient, obstreperous, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restiff, restive, unbowsome, unbuxom, uncompliant, uncontrollable, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unobedient, unobeying, unobliging, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward, volitient

Related Words

at one's beck and call, conformant, domable, domesticable, domesticatable, flattery, humble, obdt, obedience, obedt, obey, sycophant, tameable, wrap around one's little finger

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