What are some opposite words for obedient?
Antonyms for obedient
oʊˈbi di əntobe·di·ent
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term obedient.
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.
Antonyms:
determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilfulSynonyms:
amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, pliable, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yielding
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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
obedientadjective
Antonyms:
unsubmissive, intractable, disobedientSynonyms:
submissive, tractable, deferential, subservient, compliant, dutiful, docile, amenable
How to use obedient in a sentence?
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
I am not perfect. No one is, but I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to him and to the word of God.
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.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1854 | firm | |
#2328 | determined | |
#6811 | contrary | |
#7834 | dominant | |
#24054 | stubborn | |
#27763 | refractory | |
#29981 | willful | |
#31554 | perverse | |
#33621 | wayward | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#42074 | inflexible | |
#42291 | opinionated | |
#42831 | intractable | |
#43680 | resolute | |
#50489 | dogged | |
#61099 | wilful | |
#62649 | disobedient | |
#66176 | obstinate | |
#66995 | headstrong | |
#70249 | recalcitrant | |
#77553 | unyielding | |
#111963 | fractious | |
#230741 | froward |
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