disobedient

[dis-uh-bee-dee-uhnt]

adjective

1. neglecting or refusing to obey; not submitting; refractory.

   Synonyms: uncompliant, unsubmissive, rebellious, defiant, contumacious, insubordinate
   Antonyms: obedient

disobedient

/ ˌdɪsəˈbiːdɪənt /

adjective

1. not obedient; neglecting or refusing to obey

Other Word Forms

• disobediently adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of disobedient¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Old French desobedient, equivalent to des- dis- ¹ + obedient obedient

Example Sentences

That hospital – once the home of a Scottish shipping magnate – would be her home for a month in April 1958, after a judge ordered the then-16-year-old to undergo treatment for "disobedient" behaviour.

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I can't say that my own stubborn, disobedient terrier provides me with any of the benefits that the first domesticated wolves bestowed on our ancestors.

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If women resist men, however, they are seen as quarrelsome and disobedient, and no longer trustworthy.

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Like elsewhere in Hong Kong, the campus seemed to have been scrubbed of its disobedient past.

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There's a sugar rush in blaming all your problems on women, screaming about how you'd like to inflict violence on them for what Carlson described as being "disobedient."

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