What does the word obedient mean?
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Obedience.
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Acting according to command; submissive; dutiful.
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: adjective
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Usage examples for obedient
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The clouds, as if obedient to the summons rushed from all directions, like frightened soldiers. – See America First by Orville O. Hiestand
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Obedient to an impulse which she had not understood at the time, Rosamund had arranged a small, and rather odd, festivity for him which had taken him away from home, and would keep him out till five o'clock: he was having tea in a cake- shop near the top of Wesley High Street with his nurse and Mr. Thrush, who, not unexpectedly, had arrived in Welsley. – In the Wilderness by Robert Hichens
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He went out of the room then, and Fairchild, obedient to the big Cornishman's command, sought rest. – The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper