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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbiːdɪənt/, /əʊˈbiːdɪənt/
• (General American) IPA: /əˈbidiənt/, /oʊˈbidiənt/
• ハイフネーション: obe‧di‧ent

形容詞

obedient (comparative more obedient, superlative most obedient)

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.

同意語

• hearsome
• dutiful
• compliant

反意語

• disobedient
• dominant

派生語

関連する語

• obedience
• obey

名詞

obedient (plural obedients)

1. One who obeys.
   • 2002, John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, page 48:

     Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.

Further reading

• “obedient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obedient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

語源

Borrowed from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).

形容詞

obedient

1. obedient

参照

• “obēdient, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 May 2022.