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unobeyed

unobeyed adjective: not obeyed.

Adjective

unobeyed (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Words near unobeyed in the dictionary

  1. unobedience
  2. unobedient
  3. unobediently
  4. unobese
  5. unobeyable
  6. unobeyed
  7. unobeying
  8. unobfuscatable
  9. unobfuscated
  10. unobjected
  11. unobjectifiable

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