Entry Word: obedient

Function: adjective

Meaning: readily giving in to the command or authority of another <that boy is so obedient that he does everything the first time he is asked>

Synonyms amenable, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, submissive, tractable

Related Words acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, obliging; surrendering, yielding; obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient; decorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderly; constrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained; controllable, governable, manageable; gentle, meek, mild

Near Antonyms insurgent, mutinous; dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, willful (or wilful); obstreperous, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, wild; balky, defiant, perverse, resistant, wayward; bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty; ill-bred, undisciplined; dissident, nonconformist; disrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude

Antonyms contrary, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, unruly