disobedient

adjective
🔊/ˌdɪsəˈbiːdiənt/
🔊/ˌdɪsəˈbiːdiənt/
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  1. failing or refusing to obey不服从的;不顺从的;违抗的
    • a disobedient child不听话的孩子
    • disobedient to somebody/something I was very disobedient to my father.我根本不服从父亲的管教。
    opposite obedientTopics Personal qualitiesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDisobedient is used with these nouns:
    • child
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French desobedient, based on Latin oboedient- ‘obeying’, from the verb oboedire, from ob- ‘in the direction of’ + audire ‘hear’.