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)

• Purify
• enlighten
• ameliorate
• elevate
• make better

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
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• 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