obedient synonyms

obedient

modif.

  1. 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. *

  2. Docile

    pliant, acquiescent, compliant; see docile. See syn. study at docile.

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