Thesaurus:obedient
English
Adjective
Sense: willingly accepting control or supervision
Synonyms
- bowsome (archaic)
- buxom (obsolete)
- compliant
- hearsome (rare)
- hersum
- morigerous (obsolete)
- obedible (obsolete)
- obedient
- obsequent (obsolete)
- obsequious (archaic)
- tall [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- toward
Antonyms
- argumentative
- breachy
- contumacious
- defiant
- disobedient
- froward (archaic, literary)
- immorigerous (obsolete)
- inobedient (obsolete)
- insubmissive (obsolete)
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- nonobedient
- obstreperous
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- recusant
- refractory
- restiff (archaic)
- restive
- unbowsome (archaic)
- unbuxom (obsolete)
- uncompliant
- uncontrollable
- uncooperative
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unobedient
- unobeying
- unobliging
- unruly
- unsubmissive
- untoward
- volitient
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Various
- at one's beck and call
- wrap around one's little finger
- —
- obdt (archaic)
- obedt (obsolete)
- —
- domable (obsolete, rare)
- domesticable
- domesticatable
- tameable
See also
Further reading
- “743. obedience” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “obedient” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.