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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority;
- Example: "an obedient soldier"
- Example: "obedient children"
- Example: "a little man obedient to his wife"
- Example: "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obedient \O*be"di*ent\, a. [OF. obedient, L. obediens, oboediens, -entis. p. pr. of obedire, oboedire, to obey. See Obey.] Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command. [1913 Webster] And floating straight, obedient to the stream. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Syn: Dutiful; respectful; compliant; submissive. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

obedient adj 1: dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke [ant: disobedient]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "obedient": abject, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, agreeable, amenable, assenting, biddable, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conformable, conforming, conscientious, consenting, deferential, devoted, docile, duteous, dutiful, ethical, faithful, flexible, humble, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, moral, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obeisant, observant, other-directed, passive, plastic, pliant, reconciled, resigned, respectful, scrupulous, servile, sheeplike, submissive, subservient, supine, timid, tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting, willing, yielding