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Another word for obedient

obedient Synonyms

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.

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Another word for obedient

adjective

Willing to carry out the wishes of others:

amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, submissive, supple, tractable. See resist

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As an officer he was obedient and never disputed my orders or argued with them.
If you want an obedient nymph, then go get one.
"Does the food please you, my king?" he asked, standing like an obedient servant beside the madman.
But Louis was not the obedient tool she wished for.
Alexander, who had a sentimental regard for freedom, so long as it was obedient to himself, had promised the Poles a The New constitution in April 1815 in a letter to Ostrov- Polish Con- skiy, the president of the senate at Warsaw.

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