different between obedient vs sedulous

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

English

Etymology

From Latin s?dulus (“diligent, industrious, sedulous; solicitous; unremitting; zealous”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, generally in abundance). S?dulus is probably derived from s?dul? (“diligently; carefully; purposely; zealously”) (possibly from s?- (prefix meaning ‘without’) + dol? (singular of dolus (“deceit, deception; evil intent, malice”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon”))) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?d???l?s/, /?s?dj?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?d???l?s/
• Hyphenation: se?dul?ous

Adjective

sedulous (comparative more sedulous, superlative most sedulous)

1. Of a person: diligent in application or pursuit; constant and persevering in business or in endeavours to effect a goal; steadily industrious.

   Synonyms: assiduous; see also Thesaurus:industrious
2. Of an activity: carried out with diligence.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVII [Uniform ed., p. 169]:

     He had much to learn about boys, and he learnt not by direct observation—for which he believed he was unfitted—but by sedulous imitation of the more experienced masters.

Derived terms

• sedulously
• sedulousness

Related terms

• sedulity

Translations

References

Further reading

• diligence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sedulous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sedulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sedulous at OneLook Dictionary Search