- obedient - 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
Antonyms: disobedient, contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward, froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful, recusant, fractious, refractory