English
Etymology
From Middle English disobedient, dysobedyent, from Old French desobedient; morphologically, from dis- + obedient.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪənt/
Adjective
disobedient (comparative more disobedient, superlative most disobedient)
- Not obedient.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
not obedient
- Arabic: عَاصٍ (ʕāṣin)
- Armenian: անհնազանդ (hy) (anhnazand)
- Asturian: desobediente
- Belarusian: непако́рны (njepakórny), непако́рлівы (njepakórlivy), непаслухмя́ны (njepasluxmjány) (esp. of a child)
- Bulgarian: непослу́шен (bg) (neposlúšen), непоко́рен (bg) (nepokóren)
- Catalan: desobedient
- Chukchi: ааԓёмкыԓьэн (aaḷjomkyḷʹėn), аваԓёмкыԓьэн (avaḷjomkyḷʹėn)
- Czech: neposlušný (cs) m
- Danish: ulydig
- Dutch: ongehoorzaam (nl)
- Esperanto: malobeema
- Finnish: tottelematon (fi)
- French: désobéissant (fr)
- Galician: desobediente
- German: ungehorsam (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍃 (ungaƕairbs), 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀπειθής (apeithḗs)
- Hungarian: engedetlen (hu), szófogadatlan (hu)
- Icelandic: óhlýðinn
- Ingrian: hoolimatoin
- Irish: aimhriarach, anumhal, dí-umhal, doriartha, easumhal, easurramach, míréireach, neamhumhal
- Italian: disubbidiente (it)
- Latvian: nepaklausīgs, nerātns
- Macedonian: непослушен (neposlušen)
- Manx: neuviallagh, meeviallagh
- Maori: tīhoihoi, tutū, kapa, manini kē, kōroiroi (applied mainly to children)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ulydig (no)
- Nynorsk: ulydig
- Old English: unġehīersum
- Plautdietsch: goaschtrich, onjehuarsom
- Polish: nieposłuszny (pl)
- Portuguese: desobediente (pt)
- Romanian: neascultător (ro), neobedient (ro), dezobedient, nesupus (ro)
- Russian: непоко́рный (ru) (nepokórnyj), непослу́шный (ru) (neposlúšnyj) (esp. of a child)
- Scottish Gaelic: eas-umhail
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: непокоран, непослушан
- Roman: nepokoran (sh), neposlušan (sh)
- Slovak: neposlušný
- Slovene: neposlušen
- Spanish: desobediente (es)
- Swedish: olydig (sv), ohörsam (sv)
- Tagalog: pasaway
- Turkish: asi (tr), başkaldırıcı (tr), yaramaz (tr) (esp. of a child)
- Ukrainian: непокі́рний (nepokírnyj), неслухня́ний (nesluxnjányj) (esp. of a child)
- West Frisian: ongehoorzaam, dôfhûdich
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Noun
disobedient (plural disobedients)
- One who disobeys.
1972, Social Theory and Practice, volume 2, page 493:Since civil disobedients act conscientiously, Cohen believes that “extra-long prison terms will not make better men of these disobedients, nor much deter others of similar conviction.”