Accept vs Obedient - What's the difference?
accept | obedient |
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
To admit to a place or a group.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
To endure patiently.
(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
To receive officially
To receive something willingly.
(obsolete) Accepted.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
As adjectives the difference between accept and obedient
is that accept is (obsolete) accepted while obedient is willing]] to [[comply#verb|comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.As a verb accept
is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.accept
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Verb
(en verb)- She accepted of a treat.
- The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
- The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- I accept the fact that Christ lived.
- I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- I accept my punishment.
- to accept the report of a committee
- I accept .
Synonyms
* receive * take * withtake * admitAntonyms
* reject * declineDerived terms
* accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept serviceAdjective
(en adjective)- Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
obedient
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.