inobedient

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adjective

Not obedient; disobedient.

Opposite
obedient
OriginMiddle English inobedient ← Old French inobedient ← Latin inoboediens →
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Meanings

adjectiveinobedient (comparative more inobedient, superlative most inobedient)

comparative more inobedient · superlative most inobedient

  1. obsoleteNot obedient; disobedient.

    [...] I'se near be the ill bird and foul my nest, set apart strong necessity and the skreigh of duty, which no man should hear and be inobedient.

    1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 208

    Antonyms: obedient

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot obedient; disobedient.

Opposite
obedient

Origin

  1. Latininoboediens“not obedient”
  2. Old Frenchinobedient
  3. Middle Englishinobedient
  4. Englishinobedient

From Middle English inobedient, from Old French inobedient, from Latin inoboediens (“not obedient”), present participle of inoboedire (“to disobey”). Compare French inobedient. See obedient.

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