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obedient

adj
/əˈbiːdɪənt/UK/əˈbidiənt/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from oboediēns
  2. derived from obedient
  3. inherited from obedient

Definitions

  1. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority

    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.

  2. One who obeys.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at obedient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01obedient02biddable03suitable04required05mandatory06commanded07command08obeyed09obey

A definitional loop anchored at obedient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at obedient

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA