different between manageable vs obedient

English

Etymology

From manage +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d???bl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d???b(?)l/
• Hyphenation: man?age?a?ble

Adjective

manageable (comparative more manageable, superlative most manageable)

1. Capable of being managed or controlled.

   Synonyms: controllable, governable, (obsolete) maniable, tractable, subservient

   Antonyms: intractable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable

2. Capable of being done or fulfilled; achievable.

   Synonyms: accomplishable, doable, feasible, fulfillable

   Antonyms: unaccomplishable, unachievable, undoable, unfeasible, unfulfillable, unmanageable

Derived terms

• manageableness
• unmanageable

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• manageable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• manageable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboedi?ns, present active participle of oboedi? (“obey”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bi?d??nt/, /???bi?d??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bidi?nt/, /o??bidi?nt/
• Hyphenation: obe?di?ent

Adjective

obedient (comparative more obedient, superlative most obedient)

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

Synonyms

• hearsome
• dutiful

Antonyms

• disobedient
• dominant

Related terms

• obedience
• obey

Translations

Noun

obedient (plural obedients)

1. One who obeys.
   • 2002, John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (page 48)

     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.

Further reading

• obedient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obedient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin oboedi?ns, present active participle of oboedi? (“obey”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.b?.di?ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.b?.di?en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.be.di?ent/

Adjective

obedient (masculine and feminine plural obedients)

1. obedient

   Antonym: desobedient

Derived terms

• obedientment

Related terms

• obediència
• obeir

Further reading

• “obedient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Verb

ob?dient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ob?di?

Old French

Etymology

From Latin oboedi?ns, present active participle of oboedi? (“obey”).

Adjective

obedient m (oblique and nominative feminine singular obedient or obediente)

1. obedient

Declension