Synonyms for obedient
- adjective
Most common
compliant submissive subservient dutiful humble respectful observant tractable
All synonyms
Adjective
dutiful, submissive, docile, subservient, loyal, compliant, humble, respectful, deferential, tractable, observant, conformable, amenable, yielding, resigned, acquiescent, biddable, governable, sequacious, meek, pliant, complaisant, obsequious dated, duteous dated, hearsome rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.
Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- acquiescent deferential devoted docile faithful
Example sentences
- compliant Let me talk to her! She will be compliant with me.
- submissive Men are subconsciously attracted to submissive women.
- subservient Tom made his wife subservient to his needs.
- dutiful This girl was always good and dutiful.
- humble However humble it is, there is no place like home.
- respectful I stood at a respectful distance from the old man.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| obedient | steady | |
| compliant | rising | |
| submissive | rising | |
| subservient | steady | |
| dutiful | rising | |
| humble | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- meek1
- 5 letters
- loyal2
- 6 letters
- humble2, docile2, pliant2
- 7 letters
- dutiful3, duteous
- 8 letters
- resigned2, yielding2, amenable4, biddable3, hearsome
- 9 letters
- compliant3, observant3, tractable3
- 10 letters
- respectful3, submissive3, obsequious4, governable, sequacious
- 11 letters
- subservient4, deferential4, conformable, acquiescent4, complaisant3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (loyal2 = 2 syllables).