obedient

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

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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

• disobedient
• dominant

• obedience
• obey

• obedient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obedient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.bə.diˈent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.bə.diˈen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.be.diˈent/

obedient (masculine and feminine plural obedients)

1. obedient

   Antonym: desobedient

• obediència
• obeir

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

obedient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of obēdiō

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

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

1. obedient