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obedient

[ oh-bee-dee-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. obeying or willing to obey; complying with or submissive to authority:

    an obedient son.

    Synonyms: respectful, deferential, yielding, tractable, docile, compliant

    Antonyms: recalcitrant



obedient

/ əˈbiːdɪənt /

adjective

  1. obeying or willing to obey
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • oˈbediently, adverb
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Other Words From

  • o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
  • over·o·bedi·ent adjective
  • over·o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
  • preo·bedi·ent adjective
  • preo·bedi·ent·ly adverb
  • quasi-o·bedi·ent adjective
  • quasi-o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
  • super·o·bedi·ent adjective
  • super·o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of obedient1

1175–1225; Middle English < Old French < Latin oboedient- (stem of oboediēns ), present participle of oboedīre to obey; -ent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of obedient1

C13: from Old French, from Latin oboediens, present participle of oboedīre to obey
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Example Sentences

“In political terms, this policy is called the great replacement, the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from faraway countries,” Carlson said Wednesday.

Many of America’s public schools were originally built to turn unruly kids into obedient soldiers or factory workers, and buildings and schoolyards reflected that mentality.

These habits, Argentina’s leaders and intellectuals believed, would lead to a more obedient and “whitened” society.

So even though I was not obedient in one way, I never went off the deep end and like really crossed the line to do stuff that was illegal or drugs, things like that.

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After that case was announced, people became even more obedient to our directives.

He is, however, obedient about not turning on the stove burner without permission.

Being obedient disciples, they got in their carriages and followed their rebbe.

Prachi, meanwhile, is obedient to her father, but has a major problem with his mandate that she wed.

Such obedient conduct does not bring ‘value-added’ to the U.S.-U.K. relationship, nor help improve matters on the ground in Syria.

Inside her home, she was an obedient Nigerian child, eating beef stews for breakfast and wearing the traditional garb.

Had you not been loved, you never would have been chastised—you would never have become an obedient and willing child.

Now she imagined herself no longer possessing but entirely possessed; no longer commanding, but utterly obedient.

He had evidently assumed the direction of matters and his big assistant was amusingly obedient.

But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Otherwise he was obedient, and generally enjoyed romping with his sisters.

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