We should always act in obedience to the law.
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Obedience
//oʊˈbidiəns//
Synonyms for "obedience" (86 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (43)
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More general
6 entriesAntonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
104 translations across 68 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bindje noun (quality of being obedient)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πειθαρχία noun (quality of being obedient)
- ὑπακοή noun (quality of being obedient)
Arabic
3 entries- إِطَاعَة noun (quality of being obedient)
- طاعة noun (quality of being obedient)
- طَاعَة noun (quality of being obedient)
Armenian
1 entries- հնազանդություն noun (quality of being obedient)
Asturian
1 entries- obediencia noun (quality of being obedient)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- itaət noun (quality of being obedient)
Belarusian
4 entries- пако́ра noun (quality of being obedient)
- пако́рлівасць noun (quality of being obedient)
- пако́рнасць noun (quality of being obedient)
- паслухмя́насць noun (quality of being obedient)
Bulgarian
2 entries- подчине́ние noun (quality of being obedient)
- поко́рство noun (quality of being obedient)
Catalan
1 entries- obediència noun (quality of being obedient)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎪᎯᏳᎯ noun (quality of being obedient)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 服從 /服从 noun (quality of being obedient)
- 百依百順 /百依百顺 noun (quality of being obedient)
Czech
1 entries- poslušnost noun (quality of being obedient)
Danish
1 entries- lydighed noun (quality of being obedient)
Dutch
1 entries- gehoorzaamheid noun (quality of being obedient)
Esperanto
1 entries- obeemo noun (quality of being obedient)
Estonian
1 entries- sõnakuulelikkus noun (quality of being obedient)
Faroese
1 entries- lýdni noun (quality of being obedient)
Finnish
1 entries- kuuliaisuus noun (quality of being obedient)
French
1 entries- obéissance noun (quality of being obedient)
Galician
1 entries- obediencia noun (quality of being obedient)
Georgian
1 entries- მორჩილება noun (quality of being obedient)
German
3 entries- Folgsamkeit noun (quality of being obedient)
- Gehorsam noun (quality of being obedient)
- Gehorsamkeit noun (quality of being obedient)
Greek
2 entries- πειθαρχία noun (quality of being obedient)
- υπακοή noun (quality of being obedient)
Hebrew
1 entries- צַיְתָנוּת noun (quality of being obedient)
Hindi
2 entries- अनुपालन noun (quality of being obedient)
- आज्ञाकारिता noun (quality of being obedient)
Hungarian
1 entries- engedelmesség noun (quality of being obedient)
Indonesian
1 entries- kepatuhan noun (quality of being obedient)
Interlingua
1 entries- obedientia noun (quality of being obedient)
Irish
1 entries- umhlaíocht noun (quality of being obedient)
Italian
1 entries- obbedienza noun (quality of being obedient)
Japanese
3 entries- 恭順 noun (quality of being obedient)
- 服従 noun (quality of being obedient)
- 順守 noun (quality of being obedient)
Kazakh
2 entries- бағындыру noun (quality of being obedient)
- бағыну noun (quality of being obedient)
Korean
1 entries- 복종 noun (quality of being obedient)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бойсунуучулук noun (quality of being obedient)
Latin
1 entries- oboedientia noun (quality of being obedient)
Latvian
2 entries- paklausība noun (quality of being obedient)
- rātnība noun (quality of being obedient)
Lithuanian
2 entries- paklusimas noun (quality of being obedient)
- paklusnumas noun (quality of being obedient)
Macedonian
1 entries- послушност noun (quality of being obedient)
Malayalam
1 entries- അനുസരണം noun (quality of being obedient)
Mongolian
2 entries- дуулгавар noun (quality of being obedient)
- дуулгавартай байдал noun (quality of being obedient)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- guhdarî noun (quality of being obedient)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lydighet noun (quality of being obedient)
Old English
1 entries- hīersumnes noun (quality of being obedient)
Persian
3 entries- اطاعت noun (quality of being obedient)
- رامی noun (quality of being obedient)
- فزمانبردای noun (quality of being obedient)
Polish
1 entries- posłuszeństwo noun (quality of being obedient)
Portuguese
1 entries- obediência noun (quality of being obedient)
Romanian
2 entries- ascultare noun (quality of being obedient)
- supunere noun (quality of being obedient)
Russian
4 entries- повинове́ние noun (quality of being obedient)
- подчине́ние noun (quality of being obedient)
- поко́рность noun (quality of being obedient)
- послуша́ние noun (quality of being obedient)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अरमति noun (quality of being obedient)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pokórnōst noun (quality of being obedient)
- poslúšnōst noun (quality of being obedient)
- поко́рно̄ст noun (quality of being obedient)
- послу́шно̄ст noun (quality of being obedient)
Slovak
1 entries- poslušnosť noun (quality of being obedient)
Slovene
1 entries- poslušnost noun (quality of being obedient)
Spanish
1 entries- obediencia noun (quality of being obedient)
Swahili
2 entries- taa noun (quality of being obedient)
- utii noun (quality of being obedient)
Swedish
1 entries- lydnad noun (quality of being obedient)
Tagalog
1 entries- pagsunod noun (quality of being obedient)
Tajik
3 entries- итоат noun (quality of being obedient)
- итоаткорӣ noun (quality of being obedient)
- фармонбардорӣ noun (quality of being obedient)
Telugu
1 entries- విధేయత noun (quality of being obedient)
Thai
1 entries- การเชื่อฟัง noun (quality of being obedient)
Turkish
2 entries- itaatkârlık noun (quality of being obedient)
- itaatlilik noun (quality of being obedient)
Ukrainian
4 entries- поко́ра noun (quality of being obedient)
- покі́рність noun (quality of being obedient)
- послу́шність noun (quality of being obedient)
- послухня́ність noun (quality of being obedient)
Urdu
1 entries- اطاعت noun (quality of being obedient)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئىتائەت noun (quality of being obedient)
Uzbek
2 entries- boʻysunish noun (quality of being obedient)
- itoat noun (quality of being obedient)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự nghe lời noun (quality of being obedient)
Welsh
1 entries- ufudd-dod noun (quality of being obedient)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאָלגן noun (quality of being obedient)
Yoruba
1 entries- igboran noun (quality of being obedient)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Don't interpret their silence as obedience.
Source: tatoeba (305032)
They enforced obedience upon us.
Source: tatoeba (306263)
Through obedience learn to command.
Source: tatoeba (319831)
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