unobeyed
unobeyed adjective: not obeyed.
Adjective
unobeyed (not comparable)
- Not obeyed.
- Duty, honour, love, self-sacrifice--these are the fruits of The Spirit; unknown to, and unobeyed by, the savage, or by the civilized man who--as has too often happened--as is happening now in too many lands, on both sides of the Atlantic, is sinking back into inward savagery, amid an outward and...1881, Charles Kingsley, Westminster Sermons
- Sylvia looked at the tall, dingy houses, the frowzy little shops, the swarms of dirty-nosed children, shrill-voiced, with matted hair, running and whooping in the street, at the slatternly women yelling unobeyed orders to them out of half-glimpsed, cheerless interiors, smelling of cabbage and...1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig
Origin of unobeyed
From un- + obeyed.
Questions about unobeyed
- What does unobeyed mean?
- Unobeyed means not obeyed.
- What part of speech is unobeyed?
- Unobeyed is an adjective.
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