Advanced Vocabulary - Obedient and Cooperative

obedient adjective
doing what a person, law, or rule says that you must do.

cooperative adjective
cooperative people are willing to do what you ask them.

law-abiding adjective
a law-abiding person obeys the law.

good adjective
willing to obey and behave in a socially correct way.

dutiful adjective
(formal) careful to do things that other people ask or expect you to do.

submissive adjective
willing to do what other people tell you to do without arguing.

compliant adjective
too willing to do what other people want or too willing to accept their opinions.

biddable adjective
someone who is biddable does what people tell them without arguing or complaining.

legalistic adjective
(showing disapproval) obeying the law in a very strict and exact way.

servile adjective
(showing disapproval) someone who is servile is so willing to serve or obey other people that you have no respect for them.

blindly adverb
if you obey or support someone blindly, you do it without thinking for yourself whether what you are doing is right.

canonical adjective
following the generally accepted rules of something.

subservient adjective
too willing to obey other people.

slavish adjective
always doing or following what other people say or do without thinking very much for yourself.

orderly adjective
well-behaved, or well-controlled.

yielding adjective
willing to do what other people want you to do.

compliant adjective
designed to follow a particular law, system, or set of instructions.

responsive adjective
willing to reply to a question or to talk about something.

tame adjective
someone who is tame obeys other people or is afraid of them.

good adjective
willing to obey all the rules of a particular religion or organization.

Stepford adjective
doing what other people want without complaining or asking questions.

cooperatively adverb
obediently adverb
dutifully adverb
grovelling adjective
legalistically adverb
slavishly adverb
submissively adverb
tamely adverb

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedience and Cooperation	Common Phrasal Verbs
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Common Cliché words
To fail to Obey a rule	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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