law obedient person
1obedient — I adjective acquiescent, amenable, attentive, behaved, biddable, complaisant, compilable, compliant, complying, conformable, conforming, controllable, dedicated, deferential, devoted, dicto audiens, docile, ductile, duteous, dutiful, faithful,… …
2obedient — obedient, docile, tractable, amenable, biddable mean submissive to the will, guidance, or control of another. Though applied chiefly to persons, they are sometimes extended to things. Obedient implies due compliance with the commands or requests… …
3obedient — adjective obviously, you want an obedient dog for security work Syn: compliant, acquiescent, tractable, amenable; dutiful, good, law abiding, deferential, respectful, duteous, well trained, well disciplined, manageable, governable; docile, tame,… …
4obedient — [[t]oʊbi͟ːdiənt[/t]] ADJ GRADED A person or animal who is obedient does what they are told to do. He was very respectful at home and obedient to his parents... What a sweet, obedient little girl she was in the sixth grade. Ant: disobedient… …
5obedient — o|be|di|ent [ ou bidiənt ] adjective * doing what a person, law, or rule says you must do: The soldiers stood at attention disciplined, and obedient. ─ opposite DISOBEDIENT your obedient servant VERY FORMAL used in the past as a way of ending a… …
6obedient */ — UK [əˈbiːdɪənt] / US [oʊˈbɪdɪənt] adjective doing what a person, law, or rule says that you must do The children stood in a little group disciplined, and obedient. • your obedient servant Derived word: obediently adverb …
7obedient — [əˈbiːdiənt] adj doing what a person, law, or rule says that you must do Ant: disobedient obedience noun [U] obediently adv …
8Classical Hindu law in practice — originates from community, not a state polity. In this way, particular groups of society began to gain influence in the creation and administration of law. Primary corporate groups, Kingships, and Brahmins were the factions, which conveyed Hindu… …
9Civil law — Civil Civ il, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil. See {City}.] 1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. [1913 Webster] 2. Subject to… …
10obey — I verb abide by, accede, accept, accommodate, acquiesce, act in accordance with orders, act on, adhere to, agree, answer to, assent, attend to, attend to orders, be devoted to, be faithful to, be governed by, be guided by, be loyal to, be… …
