obedient 
obedi·ent (ō bē′dē ənt)
obedient
modif.
Dutiful
amenable, loyal, law-abiding, governable, tractable, resigned, devoted, respectful, complaisant, controllable, attentive, obliging, willing, deferential, under the control of, at one's command, obeisant, faithful, honoring, reverential, venerating, at one's beck and call*, on a string*, wrapped around one's finger*; see also faithful.Antonyms
unruly*, disobedient, undutiful. Docile
pliant, acquiescent, compliant; see docile. See syn. study at docile.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Moses was doing his best to make woman obedient to man.
Modifies a noun
- servant: I am, sir, your obedient servant, Belfast, January 10, 1880.
- slave: Soon, she would be his totally obedient slave.
- son: He, Jesus, is in a different class... he is the obedient son of the vineyard owner.
- dog: You want a loyal, happy, obedient dog.
- pet: The most good-natured or obedient pet may turn aggressive or behave in unpredictable ways.
- wife: The role of women The rabbis regard Ruth as the epitome of the obedient wife and mother figure whom they exalted.
Modifying Another Word
- perfectly: He shows us what it is to be perfectly obedient to God at all times.
- totally: Soon, she would be his totally obedient slave.
- extremely: Ben is extremely obedient and seems to recognize any command given.
- so: I wish my dreaming mind was always so obedient... Do you still have nightmares?
- very: I have the honor to be, Sir, Your very obedient humble, servant.
- always: Put another way, " faith is always obedient faith.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Verse 8 says, " By becoming obedient to the point of death.
- remain: Evidence of an expectation of the eschaton is also the advice to slaves to remain obedient to their masters.
- make: People cannot be made obedient except with the sword!
Preposition: in
- act: There is to be one State, to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives.
Preposition: unto
- death: He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Go, stranger, and tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their commands.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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