Synonyms for obedient
oʊˈbi di əntobe·di·ent

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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

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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

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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

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1. obedientadjective

   Synonyms:
   compliant, submissive, deferential, dutiful, respectful

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1. obedientadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   unsubmissive, intractable, disobedient

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1. List of paraphrases for "obedient":

   dutiful, docile

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How to use obedient in a sentence?

1. Sakine Esen Yilmaz:

   Education is an ideological tool, it is (now) being used to raise an obedient generation that will serve the government.

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. Governor Huckabee:

   That does mean civil disobedience, 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.

4. Edward Abbey:

   Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

5. Newt Gingrich:

   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.