Obedient means willing to do as you are told. An obedient child, an obedient dog, obedient to the law.
It has cooled as praise for children, where compliant and biddable now sound old-fashioned too, but it is still plain praise for a dog. Your obedient servant was the standard formal ending to a letter for centuries.
1adjectiveobedientWilling to do as you are told.
“The dog is very obedient and sits as soon as you tell it to.”
obedient is a quality.
Also accepted in games: compliant, biddable
Latin oboedire means to obey — ob, towards, plus audire, to hear. Obedience is really a kind of listening.
Latin
oboediēns
Old French
obedient
Middle English
obedient
English, today
obedient
Built from
From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA