obedientadjective
uk/əˈbiː.di.ənt/us/oʊˈbiː.di.ənt/doing, or willing to do, what you have been told to do by someone in authority:
Students are expected to be quiet and obedient in the classroom.
an obedient dog
See also
obey
Opposite
disobedient
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Obedient and compliant
- accordance
- acquiescent
- adherence
- answer to sb
- be (like) sheep idiom
- clean
- clean up your act idiom
- compliant
- creature
- dutiful
- easy
- follower
- I'm easy idiom
- obedience
- slavish
- slavishly
- subservient
- tie
- tied to your mother's/wife's apron strings idiom
- tractable
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obediently
adverb uk/əˈbiː.di.ənt.li/us/oʊˈbiː.di.ənt.li/
The dog trotted obediently to his master.