obedient

English

Alternative forms

• obœdient (archaic, rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• hearsome

Antonyms

• disobedient
• dominant

Related terms

• obedience
• obey

Translations

willing to comply with the commands

• Arabic: مطيع (ar) (muṭīʿ), مذعن (ar) (múḏʿin)
• Armenian: հլու (hy) (hlu) , հնազանդ (hy) (hnazand) , խելոք (hy) (xelok’) 
• Catalan: obedient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 服從 (cmn), 服从 (cmn) (fúcóng), 孝順 (cmn), 孝顺 (cmn) (xiàoshùn), 馴服 (cmn), 驯服 (cmn) (xùnfú), 乖 (cmn) (guāi)

• Czech: poslušný (cs) m
• Dutch: gehoorzaam (nl)
• Finnish: kuuliainen (fi), tottelevainen (fi)
• French: obéissant (fr)
• German: gehorsam (de)
• Greek: υπάκουος (el) (ypákouos) m 
• Hungarian: engedelmes (hu), szófogadó (hu)
• Icelandic: hlýðinn (is)

• Indonesian: patih (id)
• Italian: ubbidiente (it)
• Japanese: 従順な (ja) (じゅうじゅんな, jūjun na), 忠実な (ja) (ちゅうじつな, chūjitsu na), 大人しい (ja) (おとなしい, otonashii)
• Korean: 순종적 (ko) (sunjongjeok)
• Latvian: paklausīgs (lv), rātns (lv)
• Polish: posłuszny (pl)
• Romanian: ascultător (ro), obedient (ro), docil (ro), supus (ro)
• Russian: послушный (ru) (poslúšnyj) , покорный (ru) (pokórnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: послушан (sh)

  Roman: poslušan (sh)

• Spanish: obediente (es)
• Swedish: lydig (sv)
• West Frisian: mak (fy)

External links

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

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Adjective

obedient m, f (masculine and feminine plural obedients)

1. obedient

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Latin

Verb

obedient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of obediō

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Old French

Etymology

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

Adjective

obedient m

1. obedient

Declension

  Declension of obedient  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	obedienz, obedients	obediente	obedient
	Oblique	obedient	obediente	obedient
Plural	Subject	obedient	obedientes	obedient
	Oblique	obedienz, obedients	obedientes	obedient