disobedient Definition
dis·obedi·ent (-ənt)
adjective
not obedient; refusing or failing to obey; insubordinate; refractory
Etymology: ME < OFr desobedient
disobedient Related Forms
dis′·obe′di·ently adverb
disobedient Synonyms
disobedient Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
make: The sometimes loudly expressed irritation caused by ' the tail ' has not made anybody disobedient to this rule.
Modifies a noun
- child: By the end of the story, Tom is no longer an immature disobedient child, but an advocate of respectability and responsibility.
- people: B. The Bible on the other hand presents us with a God who suffers because of his disobedient people.
- day: Surely, surely, this was Sybilla's disobedient day.
- one: He does not forget his children even the disobedient ones.
- humanity: Failure to obey the Son, therefore, means that the wrath of God already is directed against disobedient humanity.
- wife: The Quran COMMANDS men to beat their disobedient wives.
Modifying Another Word
- very: Your more rebellious and disagreeable side will surface, causing you to become very disobedient to any order or imposed law in your family.
- not: But that is to speculate about God's providence - a practice that is highly doubtful if not disobedient.
- deliberately: Prayer Loving Father, I am sorry for the times that I have been deliberately disobedient to Your word.
- so: He was around later when God's people were being so disobedient, that he had to deliver promises of judgment.
- fundamentally: He found religious people tithing, giving a tenth, in a precise legalistic way, yet being fundamentally disobedient to God's word.
- highly: The strict moral climate of the day would have classed her fornication as highly disobedient.
Used with adjective complement
become: To these enforced controls we respond and become disobedient.
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