obedient

From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbiːdɪənt/, /əʊˈbiːdɪənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbidiənt/, /oʊˈbidiənt/

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• Hyphenation: obe‧di‧ent

obedient (comparative more obedient, superlative most obedient)

1. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.

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

• hearsome
• dutiful
• compliant

• disobedient
• dominant

• obedience
• obey

obedient (plural obedients)

1. One who obeys.
   • 2002, John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, page 48:

     Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.

• “obedient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “obedient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin oboedientem, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.βə.ðiˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.bə.ðiˈent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.be.ðiˈent]

obedient m or f (masculine and feminine plural obedients)

1. obedient

   Antonym: desobedient

• obedientment

• obediència
• obeir

• “obedient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

obēdient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of obēdiō

• obediand, obediant, obedyent, obidient

Borrowed from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).

obedient

1. obedient

• “obēdient, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2022-05-26.

From Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).

obedient m (oblique and nominative feminine singular obedient or obediente)

1. obedient

Borrowed from Latin obediens or Italian obbediente.

obedient m or n (feminine singular obedientă, masculine plural obedienți, feminine and neuter plural obediente)

1. obedient