obedient

o·be·di·ent  (-bd-nt)

adj.

Dutifully complying with the commands, orders, or instructions of one in authority.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oboedins, oboedient-, present participle of oboedre, to obey; see obey.]

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o·bedi·ent·ly adv.

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obedient

Adjective

obeying or willing to obey [Latin oboediens]

obedience n
obediently adv

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

obedient - 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 compliant - disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" submissive - inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people" good - having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" manageable - capable of being managed or controlled docile - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler disobedient - not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"

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obedient

adjective submissive, yielding, compliant, under control, respectful, law-abiding, well-trained, amenable, docile, dutiful, subservient, deferential, tractable, acquiescent, biddable, accommodating, passive, meek, ingratiating, malleable, pliant, unresisting, bootlicking (informal) obeisant, duteous << OPPOSITE disobedient

Translations

obedient [əˈbiːdɪənt] adj → obediente

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obedient [əˈbiːdɪənt] adj → obéissant(e);

to be obedient to sb/sth → obéir à qn/qch

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obedient [əˈbiːdɪənt] obedience adj → gehorsam;

to be obedient to sb obedience → jdm gehorchen

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obedient [əˈbiːdɪənt] adj → ubbidiente;

to be obedient to sb/sth → ubbidire a qn/qc