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| Main Entry: | obedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-behaved; submissive |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, amenable, at one's beck and call, attentive, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, deferential, devoted, docile, docious, duteous, dutiful, faithful, governable, honoring, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, law-abiding, loyal, obeisant, obliging, observant, on a string, pliant, regardful, resigned, respectful, reverential, sheeplike, subservient, tame, tractable, under control, venerating, well-trained, willing, wrapped around finger, yielding |
| Antonyms: | contrary, disobedient, insolent, misbehaving, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious |
| Main Entry: | conformable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate; matching |
| Synonyms: | adapted, agreeable, alike, amenable, applicable, assorted, comparable, compliant, consistent, docile, fitted, fitting, harmonious, in agreement, like, matched, obedient, orderly, proper, regular, resembling, similar, submissive, suitable, suited, tractable, unified, useable, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, nonconforming, mismatched |
| Main Entry: | deferential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful, considerate |
| Synonyms: | civil, complaisant, courteous, disarming, dutiful, ingratiating, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, polite, regardful, saccharine, silky, submissive, duteous, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, reverential, silken |
| Notes: | deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, disobedient, disrespectful, immodest, impolite, inconsiderate, noncompliant |
| Main Entry: | docile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant, submissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, childlike, complacent, cool, ductile, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laid-back, manageable, meek, mellow, mild, obedient, obliging, orderly, pliable, pliant, quiet, resigned, soft, tame, teachable, tractable, usable, well-behaved, willing, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, docious, easily influenced, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, stubborn, uncooperative, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | manageable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | controllable |
| Synonyms: | convenient, docile, easy, feasible, governable, obedient, submissive, tractable, trained, workable, amendable, tamable |
| Main Entry: | observant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert, watchful |
| Synonyms: | advertent, alive, attentive, bright, clear-sighted, comprehending, considering, contemplating, correct, deducing, detecting, discerning, discovering, discriminating, eager, eagle-eyed*, heedful, intelligent, intentive, interested, keen, mindful, not missing a trick, obedient, observative, on one's toes, on the ball*, penetrating, perceptive, questioning, quick, regardful, searching, sensitive, sharp, sharp-eyed, surveying, understanding, vigilant, wide-awake* |
| Antonyms: | careless, inattentive, indifferent, thoughtless, unaware, unmindful, unobservant, unwatchful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pliable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable, adaptable |
| Synonyms: | compliant, docile, ductile, easy, flexible, impressionable, limber, lithe, malleable, manageable, obedient, plastic, pliant, receptive, responsive, spongy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding, easily led, manipulable, moldable, putty, rolling with the punches |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, rigid, stiff, unyielding, unadaptable, unbendable, unpliable, unpliant |
| Main Entry: | resigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enduring, passive |
| Synonyms: | adapted, agreeable, amenable, calm, compliant, cordial, deferential, docile, genial, gentle, long-suffering, manageable, obedient, patient, peaceable, philosophical, pliant, quiescent, quiet, ready, reconciled, satisfied, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, tolerant, tractable, willing, yielding, accommodated, acquiescent, adjusted, biddable, nonresisting, relinquishing, renouncing, stoical, unassertive, unprotesting, unresisting, well-disposed |
| Antonyms: | intolerant |
| Main Entry: | respectful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | courteous, mannerly |
| Synonyms: | appreciative, civil, considerate, courtly, deferential, dutiful, gracious, humble, obedient, obeisant, polite, regardful, regarding, reverent, solicitous, submissive, well-mannered, admiring, duteous, recognizing, reverential, self-effacing, upholding, venerating |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, mean, unmannerly |
| Main Entry: | reverent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful |
| Synonyms: | appreciative, deferential, devout, dutiful, gracious, humble, obedient, obeisant, pious, polite, regardful, solemn, admiring, reverential, upholding, worshipping |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, craven, cringing, despicable, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, unctuous, bootlicking, eating crow, eating humble pie, sycophantic, toadying, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub*, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | master |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | submissive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant |
| Synonyms: | abject, accommodating, amenable, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, yes*, yielding, acquiescent, bowing down, comformable, complying, giving-in, nonresistant, nonresisting, obeying, uncomplaining, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tractable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manageable |
| Synonyms: | amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, governable, malleable, meek, obedient, persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tame, willing, workable, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, controllable, going along with, hanging loose, putty in hands, rolling with punches, tractile |
| Antonyms: | intractable, obstinate, stubborn, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly |
| Main Entry: | willing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable, ready |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, active, amenable, cheerful, compliant, content, deliberate, desirous, disposed, eager, energetic, enthusiastic, fair, favorable, feeling, forward, game, happy, inclined, intentional, like-minded, obedient, one, pleased, predisposed, prepared, prompt, prone, reliable, responsible, tractable, unasked, voluntary, willful, zealous, consenting, go along with, in accord with, in favor, in the mood, unbidden, unforced, well-disposed, witting |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, unprepared, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | conforming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeing |
| Synonyms: | harmonious, in agreement, obedient, in line with |
| Main Entry: | henpecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dominated by one's wife |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, browbeaten, compliant, constrained, docile, dominated, in fear of one's wife, intimidated, led by the nose, meek, nagged, obedient, passive, resigned, subjected to nagging, submissive, timid, unassertive, under one's thumb, unresisting, wife-ridden, yielding |
| Main Entry: | sequacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily led or influenced |
| Synonyms: | compliant, following, obedient, servile, subservient |
| Main Entry: | amenable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing, cooperative |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, docile, manageable, obedient, open, persuadable, pliable, responsive, susceptible, tractable, acquiescent, biddable, influenceable |
| Antonyms: | intractable, nonconforming, uncooperative, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | faithful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loyal, reliable |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, ardent, circumspect, conscientious, constant, dependable, devoted, dutiful, dyed-in-the-wool*, enduring, fast, firm, genuine, hard-core*, honest, honorable, incorruptible, loving, obedient, on the level*, patriotic, resolute, scrupulous, sincere, staunch, steadfast, steady, straight, sure, tried, tried and true, true, true-blue*, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, unchanging, unswerving, unwavering, upright, veracious, allegiant, attached, behind one, confiding, string along with |
| Antonyms: | dishonest, disloyal, false, inconstant, treacherous, unfaithful, unreliable, untrue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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