Compliant vs Obedient - What's the difference?
compliant | obedient |
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
Obedient is a antonym of compliant.
As adjectives the difference between compliant and obedient
is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while obedient is willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.compliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The suspect was compliant when arrested.
- The browser is standards compliant .
- The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Derived terms
(compatible with guidlines) * *See also
* compliantlyAnagrams
*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.