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Synonyms for obedient
oʊˈbi di əntobe·di·ent
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Wiktionary
obedientadjective
Antonyms:
dominant, disobedientobedientadjective
Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.
Antonyms:
dominant, disobedient
English Synonyms and Antonyms
obedient
One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.
Synonyms:
amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, pliable, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yieldingAntonyms:
determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful
Princeton's WordNet
obedientadjective
dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
"an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
Antonyms:
recusant, disobedient, perverse, headstrong, wayward, fractious, contrary, recalcitrant, obstinate, self-willed, willful, refractory, froward, wilful
Dictionary of English Synonymes
obedientadjective
Synonyms:
compliant, submissive, deferential, dutiful, respectful
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
obedientadjective
Synonyms:
submissive, tractable, deferential, subservient, compliant, dutiful, docile, amenableAntonyms:
unsubmissive, intractable, disobedient
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#22418 | manageable | |
#22879 | tame | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#38382 | amenable | |
#57879 | pliable | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#76427 | dutiful | |
#88025 | teachable | |
#89266 | pliant |
How to use obedient in a sentence?
She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people.
Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae:
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.
They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.
It means we are obedient to a power that is not only higher than the current government, but a power that was the basis of our government.
Kids died because they were asked to stay still, if I stay obedient and listen to what grown-ups tell me to do, it will damage me, so I now speak my mind.
Translations for obedient
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- مطيع, مذعنArabic
- obedientCatalan, Valencian
- poslušnýCzech
- gehorsamGerman
- υπάκουοςGreek
- obedienteSpanish
- kuuliainen, tottelevainenFinnish
- obéissantFrench
- makWestern Frisian
- szófogadó, engedelmesHungarian
- խելոք, հնազանդ, հլուArmenian
- patihIndonesian
- hlýðinnIcelandic
- ubbidiente, obbedienteItalian
- צייתניHebrew
- 従順, 大人しい, 忠実Japanese
- 순종적Korean
- rātns, paklausīgsLatvian
- ngāwariMāori
- gehoorzaamDutch
- posłusznyPolish
- obedientePortuguese
- docil, obedient, supus, ascultătorRomanian
- послушный, покорныйRussian
- poslušan, послушанSerbo-Croatian
- lydigSwedish
- слухня́ний, покі́рнийUkrainian
- 听话Chinese
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