obedient

Plural: obedients

Adjective

• Complying or willing to comply with commands or instructions.
• 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.

Examples

• His letters were OBEDIENT, falling perfectly into place for a bonus word.
• Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

disobedient, argumentative, breachy, contumacious, defiant, 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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