Reverse Dictionary: OBEDIENT

ADJECTIVES
► ABLE of a person: susceptible to persuasion; compliant, obedient; accommodating, gracious → c1384 obs.
► ANSABLE ► ANSIBLE heedful, attentive, obedient → 1908 Sc.
► BIDDABLE ready to do what is bidden; obedient, willing, docile → 1826
► BIDDENABLE obedient, docile → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRIDLEWISE of a person: obedient → 1898 Amer. dial.
► BUXOM obedient; pliant; compliant, tractable → c1175 obs.
► EYE-SERVING hard-working or obedient only when under observation → 1615
► HEARSUM ► HERSUM ready to hear; obedient, compliant; dutiful, devout → c900 obs.
► MINDFUL obedient → 1952 Amer. dial.
► MORIGERATE complying, obedient → a1533
► MORIGEROUS obedient, dutiful, compliant, submissive → c1600
► OBEDIBLE capable of obedience; obedient, docile, compliant, submissive, yielding  → 1622 obs.
► OBEDIENCIARY practising or professing obedience; owning allegiance → 1700 obs.
► OBEISAND obedient → c1500 obs.
► OBEISANT obedient → 1297 obs.
► OBEYABLE that can or should be obeyed → 1676
► OBEYAND obeying, obedient → c1400 N. Eng. dial. obs.
► OBEYANT obedient → c1400
► OBEYSAND obedient, obeying → 1375 obs.
► OBSEQUENT compliant, yielding, obedient, submissive → 1520 obs.
► OBSEQUIOUS compliant with the will or wishes of another, esp. of a superior; prompt to serve, please, or follow directions; obedient, dutiful → a1450
► OBTEMPERATE obedient, submissive → 1432-50 obs.
► PEREMPTOR insistent on obedience or compliance; also, imperious, dictatorial → 1630 obs.
► PEREMPTORY intolerant of refusal or opposition; insisting on compliance or obedience; imperious, dictatorial → 1590
► SUBJECTLY obedient, submissive → a1603 obs.

ADVERBS
► BIDDABLY obediently, meekly → 1895 Sc.
► BUXOMLY obediently, humbly, meekly; courteously, willingly → a1240 obs.

NOUNS
► BIDDABILITY the quality of being biddable; obedience → 1947
► BIDDABLENESS obedience, docility, tractability → 1886 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BUXOMNESS obedience; submissiveness; lowliness, humility → c1175 obs.
► HERSUMNESSE obedience → c900 obs.
► OBEYANCE obedience; homage → a1400-50 obs.
► OBSEQUIOUSNESS ready compliance or obedience; eagerness to serve or please; dutiful service → 1447 obs.
► OBTEMPERANCE obeying → 1623 obs.
► OBTEMPERATION obedience, an obeying → 1611 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► EYE-SERVANT a servant or employee who is hard-working or obedient only when observed by his or her master or employer → a1555
► EYE-SERVER a servant or employee who is hard-working or obedient only when observed by his or her master or employer → a1626
► OBEDIENCIARY one who obeys; one yielding obedience; a person in a position of subjection; one owning allegiance, a subject → c1540 obs.
► OBEDIENT one who is obedient or subject to authority; a subordinate → 1626 obs.
► OBEISANT one who is obedient; an obedient servant; one under authority; a subordinate → 1475 obs.
► OBEYER one who obeys; one who yields obedience → 1551
► OBTEMPERANCE obeying → 1589 chiefly Sc. usage obs.
► OBTEMPERATION obeying → 1611 obs.
► POODLE a person who is obsequiously or unquestioningly willing to follow or obey another; a lackey → 1907 derogatory

PHRASES
► ILL SERVANT WILL NEVER MAKE A GOOD MASTER, AN he that cannot obey, cannot rule → 1887 Eng. dial.
► YES SIR, YES SIR, THREE BAGS FULL used for mocking unquestioning, blind obedience → 1986 US

VERBS
► ABEY to bend, to bow; to submit, to yield, to render obedience → c1300 obs.
► ANT to show attention to, to respect, to obey → 1891 Sc.
► BECK to curtsey; to cringe; to do obeisance → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUXOM to yield to, to obey → c1305 obs.
► DANCE TO A PERSON’S WHISTLE to follow his lead; to unquestionably obey → c1560 sl.
► ENT to regard, to notice; to obey → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HEAR to obey → c950
► HEARSUM ► HERSUM to obey, to be obedient to; to revere → c900 obs.
► LEAD BY THE NOSE to cause to obey submissively → 1583
► LEAD BY THE SLEEVE to cause to obey submissively → c1425 obs.
► MORIGERATE to do as commanded; to obey, to comply → 1623 obs.
► OBEISH to obey → a1400-50 obs.
► OBSEQUE to comply with, to yield to, to obey → 1720 obs.
► OBTEMPER to comply with, to yield to, to obey → c1489 obs.
► OBTEMPERATE to comply with, yield to, submit to, obey; to be obedient → 1432-50
► WALK THE CHALK to conform rigorously to a prescribed standard; to behave oneself; to obey implicitly → 1845 Amer. dial.
► WALK THE CHALK LINE to conform rigorously to a prescribed standard; to behave oneself; to obey implicitly → 1851 Amer. dial.
► WALK THE CHALK MARK to conform rigorously to a prescribed standard; to behave oneself; to obey implicitly → 1905 Amer. dial.