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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good behavior; submissiveness |
| Synonyms: | accordance, acquiescence, agreement, compliance, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, subservience, tameness, tractability, willingness |
| Antonyms: | bad behavior, disobedience, misbehavior, mischief, mutiny, rebellion |
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| Concept: | Obedience. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
obedience; observance; compliance; submission; subjection; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation., allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity., submissness, submissiveness; ductility (softness); obsequiousness (servility).
-verbs
-adjectives
obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call; under beck and call, under control., restrainable; resigned, passive; submissive; henpecked; pliant (soft)., unresisted.
-adverbs
obediently; in compliance with, in obedience to.
-phrases
to hear is to obey; as you please, if you please.
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| Antonyms: | disobedience |
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| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, giving in, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, submissiveness, yielding |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | allegiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loyalty |
| Synonyms: | adherence, ardor, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, devotion, duty, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, homage, honor, obedience, obligation, piety |
| Antonyms: | disloyalty, enmity, sedition, treachery, treason |
| Main Entry: | compliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance, concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility, obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission, submissiveness, tractability, yielding |
| Antonyms: | defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension, dissent, fight, nonconformity, refusal, veto |
| Main Entry: | conformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, conventionality, docility, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness |
| Antonyms: | difference, fight, noncomformity, refusal |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral obligation |
| Synonyms: | accountability, accountableness, allegiance, amenability, answerability, burden, call of duty, charge, conscience, deference, devoir, faithfulness, good faith, honesty, integrity, liability, loyalty, obedience, pledge, respect, reverence |
| Antonyms: | faithlessness, inconstancy, treachery |
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
| Synonyms: | abasement, bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, docility, fawning, inferiority complex, lack of pride, lowliness, meekness, mortification, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, passiveness, reserve, resignation, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, shyness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timidity, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance |
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotedness, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, incorruptibility, integrity, inviolability, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, scrupulousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, submission, support, tie, troth, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal |
| Antonyms: | disloyalty, undependability, unfaithfulness |
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