obedient

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/əˈbiːdɪənt/|/əʊˈbiːdɪənt/    /əˈbidiənt/|/oʊˈbidiənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more obedient comparative most obedient superlative obedients plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
词源 2
From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
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