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obeying

ADJECTIVE

submissive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accommodating deferential dutiful meek obedient passive

WEAK

abject acquiescent amenable bowing down comformable complying docile domesticated giving-in humble ingratiating lowly malleable menial nonresistant nonresisting obeisant obsequious patient pliable pliant resigned servile slavish subdued tame tractable uncomplaining unresisting yes yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disobedient immodest

WEAK

fighting intractable resistant unyielding

ADVERB

under

Synonyms

WEAK

amenable belonging collateral consequent corollary dependent directed following governed in the power of included inferior junior lesser low lower obedient reporting sub subject subjugated subordinate subsequent subservient subsidiary substract subsumed

Antonyms

WEAK

above higher major more over primary up upward

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We let ourselves blend into the algorithm, feeding and obeying the machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Some of them had no intention of obeying their village chief.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

Pasha said he was instructed to film and send proof to the authorities that the school was obeying the new curriculum.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

However, the Nuremberg tribunals after World War II established in international law that obeying an unlawful order does not absolve an individual of responsibility for atrocities.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2025

She would keel over on the spot, her soul obeying that beautiful voice and those kind eyes.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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