Word Meanings - DISOBEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.
Additional info about word: DISOBEY
Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISOBEY)
- Transgress
- Break
- violate
- pass
- disobey
- contravene
- sin
- offend
- infringe
- trespass
- Violate
- Ravish
- injure
- abuse
- disturb
- hurt
- rape
- outrage
- debauch
- break
- profane
- transgress
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISOBEY)
Related words: (words related to DISOBEY)
- OFFENDANT
An offender. Holland. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - OUTRAGEOUS
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous - RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - DISOBEYER
One who disobeys. - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - CONTRAVENE
1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to - DEBAUCHMENT
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. - INFRINGER
One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype. - RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting. - DEBAUCHNESS
Debauchedness. - DEBAUCH
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. - TRANSGRESSIVE
Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. - - TRANSGRESS
1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To - CONTRAVENER
One who contravenes. - INJURE
To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander, - BETTERMOST
Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham. - DEBAUCHEDNESS
The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - INTRANSGRESSIBLE
Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland. - UPBREAK
To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface. - PERBREAK
See PARBREAK