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Definition of Disobedient
1. Adjective. Not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority. "Disobedient children"
Also: Incorrigible, Defiant, Noncompliant, Bad, Difficult, Unmanageable, Obstinate, Stubborn, Unregenerate, Intractable
Similar to: Contrary, Obstinate, Perverse, Wayward, Fractious, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Froward, Headstrong, Self-willed, Wilful, Willful, Recusant
Derivative terms: Disobedience, Disobey
Antonyms: Obedient
2. Adjective. Unwilling to submit to authority. "Unruly teenagers"
Definition of Disobedient
1. a. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.
Definition of Disobedient
1. Adjective. Not obedient. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disobedient
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disobedient
Literary usage of Disobedient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876)
""Unto you therefore which believe he is precione: but unto them which bo disobedient,
the stone which the builders disallowed, the aamo is made the head of ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"... called the disobedient Child, disobedient Compiled by Thomas ... In the play
of " The disobedient Child," Rich Man's Son married against ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"disobedient wilful persons (I will term them no worse) are animated, laws contemned,
her majesty's will and and have such punished as neglect coming to the ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"So, if he be obstinately disobedient to the lawful canons of the church. ...
So, if he be incorrigibly disobedient to his ordinary. ..."
5. The Works of Nathanael Emmons ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Nathanael Emmons (1842)
"God was under no obligation to make these promises to obedient children ; nor to
threaten to punish disobedient children in this life. ..."
6. Sermons Chiefly on the Interpretation of Scripture by Thomas Arnold (1845)
"SERMON X. THE disobedient PROPHET. 1 KINGS, xiii. 26. ... Taking then the account
of the disobedient prophet merely as the account of a past event, ..."
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