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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

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

However, the Defense Department’s Law of War Manual highlights the particular crime of obeying orders that are “clearly illegal” or that “the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal.”

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2025

What about the risks of obeying an unlawful order?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

It DE decides a school is not obeying the guidance it can be named and shamed.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

He shakes his head once at them, and they stop immediately in unison, obeying so quickly that it is as if they were programmed to do it.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu