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Synonyms for obedient
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Wiktionary4.0 / 6 votes

  1. obedientadjective

    Antonyms:
    dominant, disobedient

  2. obedientadjective

    Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.

    Antonyms:
    dominant, disobedient

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 2 votes

  1. 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, yielding

    Antonyms:
    determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

Princeton's WordNet1.7 / 7 votes

  1. 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 Synonymes3.5 / 4 votes

  1. obedientadjective

    Synonyms:
    compliant, submissive, deferential, dutiful, respectful

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 2 votes

  1. obedientadjective

    Synonyms:
    submissive, tractable, deferential, subservient, compliant, dutiful, docile, amenable

    Antonyms:
    unsubmissive, intractable, disobedient

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "obedient":

    dutiful, docile

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How to use obedient in a sentence?

  1. Tim Wildmon:

    Our mission as Christians is always to be obedient and pray — and right now that means pray for the people in Ukraine and those in authority.

  2. Howard Zinn:

    Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  3. Choi Yun-ah:

    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.

  4. Mary McCarthy:

    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.

  5. Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae:

    Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.


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