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. 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.

2. William Frank Buckley, Jr.:

   I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

3. Nisar Hussain:

   She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people.

4. Petro Poroshenko:

   Now, it is finally clear that we struggled on Maidan not against Yanukovych. He was just a cruel and obedient marionette, moscow was preparing to the liquidation and tearing Ukraine apart long before the victory of Maidan. They were expecting the fall of Yanukovych and accelerated the course of events.

5. Governor Huckabee:

   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.

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