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obedient
[ oh-bee-dee-uhnt ]
adjective
an obedient son.
Synonyms: respectful, deferential, yielding, tractable, docile, compliant
Antonyms: recalcitrant
obedient
/ əˈbiːdɪənt /
adjective
- obeying or willing to obey
Derived Forms
- oˈbediently, adverb
Other Words From
- o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
- over·o·bedi·ent adjective
- over·o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
- preo·bedi·ent adjective
- preo·bedi·ent·ly adverb
- quasi-o·bedi·ent adjective
- quasi-o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
- super·o·bedi·ent adjective
- super·o·bedi·ent·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of obedient1
Example Sentences
“I thought maybe Sister Agnes would be nervous too, so I used that. I didn’t have to repress it. She’s not part of the brawl with the men. She doesn’t get into the opinion of who should be the next pope. When she does speak, she speaks what she knows and goes back to her vow of being silent and invisible and obedient.”
“Mexicans are considered great workers around the world and that’s very positive, but it is also due to the fact that we are obedient and being obedient is very convenient to the system,” Briones says.
“Pedro is not obedient. Disobedience is revolutionary.”
The fact that she likens herself to an obedient canine in our conversation is fitting, then, as she also describes her changing body as a “wild-pregnant-mammal-thing” in “Lifeform,” losing “nests” of hair that resemble fur balls.
According to the indictment, participants were allegedly coerced with drugs and threats to remain “obedient and compliant”.
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