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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abject, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, agreeable, amenable, assenting, biddable, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conformable, conforming, conscientious, consenting, deferential, devoted, docile, duteous, dutiful, ethical, faithful, flexible, humble, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, moral, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obeisant, observant, other-directed, passive, plastic, pliant, reconciled, resigned, respectful, scrupulous, servile, sheeplike, submissive, subservient, supine, timid, tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting, willing, yielding
Dictionary Results for obedient:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
obedient
    adj 1: dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of
           those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient
           children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the
           obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory
           remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke [ant: disobedient]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Obedient \O*be"di*ent\, a. [OF. obedient, L. obediens,
   oboediens, -entis. p. pr. of obedire, oboedire, to obey. See
   Obey.]
   Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey;
   submissive to restraint, control, or command.
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         And floating straight, obedient to the stream. --Shak.
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         The chief his orders gives; the obedient band,
         With due observance, wait the chief's command. --Pope.
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   Syn: Dutiful; respectful; compliant; submissive.
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