disobedient

English

Etymology

From Middle English disobedient, dysobedyent, from Old French desobedient; morphologically, from dis- ‎ obedient.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪənt/

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Adjective

disobedient (comparative more disobedient, superlative most disobedient)

1. Not obedient.

Derived terms

• civilly disobedient
• disobediently

 

Related terms

• disobedience

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

Noun

disobedient (plural disobedients)

1. 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.”