Obedient

obedient
    adj 1: dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of
           those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient
           children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the
           obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory
           remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke [ant: {disobedient}]
    

Obedient \O*be"di*ent\, a. [OF. obedient, L. obediens,
   oboediens, -entis. p. pr. of obedire, oboedire, to obey. See
   {Obey}.]
   Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey;
   submissive to restraint, control, or command.
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         And floating straight, obedient to the stream. --Shak.
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         The chief his orders gives; the obedient band,
         With due observance, wait the chief's command. --Pope.
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   Syn: Dutiful; respectful; compliant; submissive.
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62 Moby Thesaurus words for "obedient":
      abject, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, adaptable, adapting,
      adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, agreeable, amenable, assenting,
      biddable, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying,
      conformable, conforming, conscientious, consenting, deferential,
      devoted, docile, duteous, dutiful, ethical, faithful, flexible,
      humble, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, moral, nondissenting,
      nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obeisant, observant,
      other-directed, passive, plastic, pliant, reconciled, resigned,
      respectful, scrupulous, servile, sheeplike, submissive,
      subservient, supine, timid, tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining,
      unresistant, unresisting, willing, yielding