Antonyms 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.

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

   Synonyms:
   amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, pliable, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yielding

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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

   Antonyms:
   unsubmissive, intractable, disobedient

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

How to use obedient in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Real Live Preacher:

   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.

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. Edward Abbey:

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

5. Chuck Peruto:

   They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

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