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Synonyms:
- submissive, deferential, holy, amenable, governable, kowtowing, correct, customary, solemn, resigned, attentive, pliant, attending, pliable, unruly, feudal, conforming, tractable, gentle, religious, junior, subservient, congruous, acquiescing, cooperative, biddable, traditional, deferent, subjugated, complying, prayerful, mannerly, compliant, respectful, allegiant, superstitious, groveling, enslaved, bound, supple, manageable, devoted, concurrent, conformable, menial, consist, yielding, enthralled, good, duteous, resist, pious, supporting, Y2K compliant, complaisant, dependent, sanctified, obeisant, adherent, constrained, supine, tame, conventional, sanctimonious, subject, genuflecting, reverent, holier-than-thou, humble, disobedient, formal, teachable, dutiful, godly, subjected, curtsying, loyal, meek, browbeaten, cultist, adhering, aping, under, regular, downtrodden, docile, worshipful, devout, dogmatic, willing, faithful, proper, subordinate, acquiescent, servile, law-abiding, slavish, unfranchised, controllable, Christian, inferior, legalistic
Examples:
- - Here is a very plain command: 'Servants, be obedient; ' be obedient to your masters. - "Slavery and the Constitution", William Ingersoll Bowditch
- - Kretzschmar is no doubt at the corner of the street to see whether I, as an obedient servant of his master, leave here. - "Old Fritz and the New Era", Louise Muhlbach
- - " That is right, daughter; my little Elsie is a good, obedient child," he said, pressing her closer to him. - "Elsie Dinsmore", Martha Finley
Antonyms:
- errant, disrespectful, opinionated, insubordinate, ill-bred, inflexible, unruly, contumacious, naughty, contrary, restive, refractory, peevish, rebel, undisciplined, incompliant, defiant, mutinous, intractable, impolite, wayward, bad, disorderly, recalcitrant, resolute, obdurate, fractious, balky, rebellious, untoward, mischievous, insurgent, hardheaded, perverse, self-willed, obstinate, froward, dogged, misbehaving, unmanageable, ill-mannered, determined, resistant, nonconformist, pigheaded, stubborn, recusant, disobedient, unamenable, unyielding, uncontrollable, willful, wild, noncompliant, firm, dissident, wilful, insolent, headstrong, mulish, ungovernable, obstreperous, rude, impudent
