ADJECTIVE | all | obedient | dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority |
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Sounds | owbiy'diyahnt | |
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Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... |
Meaning | dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority. | |
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Attribute of | obedience | The trait of being willing / willing to obey |
Narrower | Y2K compliant | Prepared to accurately process date and time data between and into the 20th and 21st centuries |
acquiescent, biddable | willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | |
conformable | Quick to comply | |
dutiful, duteous | willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | |
See also | compliant | disposed or willing to comply |
docile | willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed | |
good | Having desirable / desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified | |
manageable | capable of being managed or controlled | |
submissive | Inclined or willing / willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination | |
tractable, manipulable | easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | |
Opposite | disobedient | not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority |
Spanish | obediente | |
Catalan | obedient | |
Nouns | obedience | the act of obeying |
obedience | behavior intended to please your parents | |
obedience | the trait of being willing / willing to obey | |
Adverbs | obediently | in an obedient manner |
Verbs | obey | be obedient to |
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