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Disobedient definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISOBEDIENT, a.
1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; as children disobedient to parents; citizens disobedient to the laws.
I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts 26.
2. Not yielding to exciting force or power.
Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children" [ant: obedient]
2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient, unruly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century refusing or neglecting to obey • disobediently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. disobeying; rebellious, rule-breaking. Derivatives: disobedience n. disobediently adv. Etymology: ME f. OF desobedient (as DIS-, OBEDIENT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disobedient Dis`o*be"di*ent, a. [Pref. dis- + obedient. See Disobey, Obedient.] 1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. --Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. --1 Kings xiii. 26. 2. Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. --E. Darwin.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are disobedient, you deliberately do not do what someone in authority tells you to do, or what a rule or law says that you should do. Her tone was that of a parent to a disobedient child. ? obedient ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Unsubmissive, uncomplying, refractory, obstinate, undutiful, unruly, froward.

Moby Thesaurus

anarchic, at odds, averse, bad, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, cursory, deaf to, declinatory, defiant, delinquent, derelict, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disregardful, forced, fractious, froward, headstrong, heady, ill-behaved, incompliant, indisciplined, indisposed, indocile, insubordinate, intractable, involuntary, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mischievous, mutinous, naughty, negative, nonconforming, nonconsenting, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, opposed, perfunctory, perverse, pigheaded, rampant, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reinless, rejective, remiss, resistant, revolting, self-willed, stubborn, sulky, sullen, transgressive, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconsenting, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, unwilling, violative, wayward, wildcat, willful