Thesaurus
obedience
Synonyms and Antonyms of obedience
- the drill sergeant demanded complete and unquestioning obedience from the recruits
abidance, agreeability, amenability, teachableness, tractability, tractableness, trainability
acquiescence, capitulation, obeisance, obsequiousness, submissiveness, surrender, yielding
deference, docility, dutifulness, humility, meekness, modesty, servility, slavishness, subordinateness, subservience, subserviency
- the cowardly obedience with which the dictatorʼs henchmen followed his every command
- expectations of strict obedience to the guidelines were soon dashed
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