Obligate vs Obedient - What's the difference?
obligate | obedient |
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
(biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
Absolutely indispensable; essential.
Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
As adjectives the difference between obligate and obedient
is that obligate is (biology) able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role while obedient is willing]] to [[comply#verb|comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.As a verb obligate
is (transitive|north america|scottish) to bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.obligate
English
(wikipedia obligate)Verb
(obligat)Usage notes
In non-legal usage, almost exclusively used in the passive, in form “obligated' to X” where ‘X’ is a verb infinitive or noun phrase, as in “'''obligated to pay”. Further, it is now only in standard use in American English and some dialects such as Scottish,''Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage,'' p. 675 having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by obliged (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).''The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1996)Synonyms
* See also:Derived terms
* obligation * obligatoryReferences
Adjective
(en adjective)- an obligate''' parasite; an '''obligate anaerobe.
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.