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regardful
English
Etymology
From regard +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??????df?l/
Adjective
regardful (comparative more regardful, superlative most regardful)
- Respectful. [from 16th c.]
- (now rare) Watchful, observant. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
- And evermore, when with regardfull sight / She looking backe espies that griesly wight / Approching nigh, she gins to mend her pace […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
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obedient
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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 2002, John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (page 48)
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)
- 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
- 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)
- obedient
Declension
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