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disobedient Definition

dis·obedi·ent (-ənt)

adjective

not obedient; refusing or failing to obey; insubordinate; refractory

Etymology: ME < OFr desobedient

disobedient Related Forms

dis′·obedi·ently adverb

disobedient Synonyms

disobedient

modif.

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.