Disobedient means refusing to do as a parent, teacher or owner says. A disobedient child, a disobedient dog, wilfully disobedient.
It is used of children and animals almost exclusively, since among adults the word would be insulting. Civil disobedience is the deliberate breaking of a law to protest against it, which is the one dignified use.
1adjectivedisobedientRefusing to do as a parent, teacher, or owner says, in the way a naughty child or an unruly dog behaves.
“The disobedient puppy kept jumping on the sofa after being told to get down.”
disobedient is a quality.
Old French desobedient is dis-, not, plus obedient, from Latin oboedire, to obey.
Old French
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Middle English
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English, today
disobedient
From Middle English disobedient, dysobedyent, from Old French desobedient; morphologically, from dis- + obedient.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA