dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/obe_MW.json

{
  "obedience":{
    "antonyms":[
      "balkiness",
      "contrariness",
      "contumacy",
      "defiance",
      "disobedience",
      "frowardness",
      "insubordination",
      "intractability",
      "noncompliance",
      "obstreperousness",
      "rebelling",
      "rebellion",
      "rebelliousness",
      "recalcitrance",
      "refractoriness",
      "self-will",
      "unruliness",
      "waywardness",
      "willfulness"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an act or instance of obeying":[],
      ": the quality or state of being obedient":[
        "Children should learn obedience and respect for authority."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the drill sergeant demanded complete and unquestioning obedience from the recruits",
      "the cowardly obedience with which the dictator's henchmen followed his every command",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Said trials use chemicals to manipulate human emotions and behavior: love and fear, honesty and obedience . \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 13 June 2022",
      "Boards exercise key legal duties of care, loyalty, and obedience in order to serve the interests of investors. \u2014 Amy Glynn, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
      "Smaller than collies, these adorable fluffballs hold their own in herding, agility and obedience trials. \u2014 Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
      "At the unit's garrison on the Danube River in the capital Budapest, Logan receives daily socialization and obedience exercises, and is trained to recognize the smell of 25 different explosive substances. \u2014 Justin Spike, ajc , 14 May 2022",
      "Since the first centuries of Christianity, communion has been accessible only to those believers living under the authority of their bishops and in obedience to Catholic doctrine. \u2014 J.d. Flynn, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
      "Defiance requires extraordinary courage; obedience merely requires default behavior. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "The prudish Thunberg looked upon the Japanese\u2019s obedience to superiors with envy. \u2014 Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
      "One belongs to Thomas Hobbes (1588\u20131679), who saw unconditional obedience to an all-powerful state, a leviathan, as the only path to security and political stability. \u2014 Joseph Loconte, National Review , 2 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin oboedientia \"act of obeying\" (Medieval Latin also, \"sphere of jurisdiction\"), noun derivative of oboedient-, oboedient obedient":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-",
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0113-d\u0113-\u0259n(t)s",
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0113-d\u0113-\u0259ns"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "compliance",
      "conformity",
      "submission",
      "subordination"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082858",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "obedient":{
    "antonyms":[
      "balky",
      "contrary",
      "contumacious",
      "defiant",
      "disobedient",
      "froward",
      "incompliant",
      "insubordinate",
      "intractable",
      "noncompliant",
      "obstreperous",
      "rebel",
      "rebellious",
      "recalcitrant",
      "refractory",
      "restive",
      "unamenable",
      "ungovernable",
      "unruly",
      "untoward",
      "wayward",
      "willful",
      "wilful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": submissive to the restraint or command of authority : willing to obey":[
        "an obedient child",
        "an obedient dog",
        "obedient to those whom he feared",
        "\u2014 A. N. Wilson"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "that boy is so obedient that he does everything the first time he is asked",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Sissi is well-known to European audiences thanks to a film trilogy in which Romy Schneider plays the empress as a young, obedient monarch in a kitschy, folkloric-style setting. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 May 2022",
      "They were taught to be obedient and submissive, even as they were abused. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
      "Being obedient , hitting the familiar beats of an A-list career in the 2020s, has made Mira a wealthy and in-demand person. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 2 June 2022",
      "Therefore make rational answers and be obedient , in the Name of the Lord. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
      "These pups are obedient , outgoing, and affectionate. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022",
      "Naomi was a young lady who was so obedient , very Southern, very respectful. \u2014 Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "When protein finally came to Allen\u2019s party, as the salmon returned in June to Suslota Lake in the Mentasta Mountains, Allen walked away from them, obedient to his task and faithful that more food would appear in the unknown ahead. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "Historians who had previously been obedient communists felt emboldened to come out in their true colors. \u2014 Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin oboedient-, oboediens, from present participle of oboed\u012bre \"to follow the commands of, submit to\" \u2014 more at obey":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-",
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0113-d\u0113-\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obedient obedient , docile , tractable , amenable mean submissive to the will of another. obedient implies compliance with the demands or requests of one in authority. obedient to the government docile implies a predisposition to submit readily to control or guidance. a docile child tractable suggests having a character that permits easy handling or managing. tractable animals amenable suggests a willingness to yield or cooperate because of a desire to be agreeable or because of a natural open-mindedness. amenable to new ideas",
    "synonyms":[
      "amenable",
      "biddable",
      "compliant",
      "conformable",
      "docile",
      "law-abiding",
      "submissive",
      "tractable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094752",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "obese":{
    "antonyms":[
      "lean",
      "skinny",
      "slender",
      "slim",
      "spare",
      "thin"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having excessive body fat":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "providing medical treatment for obese patients",
      "the basset hound was so obese that its stomach touched the floor",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "However, Brawley noted, the data are weaker for people who are obese but have lower BMIs. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 8 June 2022",
      "The film centers on a severely obese and reclusive teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
      "Greene once tweeted that the coronavirus was not dangerous for people younger than 65 who were not obese and that vaccines should not be required. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "Bariatric surgery may help the growing share of the global population that is obese to avoid dangerous complications of a condition known as fatty-liver disease, according to a new study. \u2014 Betsy Mckay, WSJ , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Among people who died from COVID-19, 46% were obese and 27% were overweight. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "In late July, Greene was hit with a 12-hour ban after erroneously tweeting the coronavirus was not dangerous for young people who were not obese . \u2014 Tommy Beer, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
      "American Indian and Alaska Native adults are 50% more likely to be obese and 30% more likely to suffer from hypertension compared to white Americans. \u2014 Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, The Conversation , 27 May 2021",
      "In 2005, a CDC and National Cancer Institute research team reported that overall, people who were overweight but not obese had slightly lower mortality rates than people whose weight qualified as normal. \u2014 Jennifer Couzin-frankel, Science | AAAS , 29 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1651, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin ob\u0113sus \"fat, stout,\" past participle of * obedere, perhaps meaning originally \"to gnaw,\" from ob- \"against\" + edere \"to eat\" \u2014 more at ob- , eat entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0113s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blubbery",
      "chubby",
      "corpulent",
      "fat",
      "fleshy",
      "full",
      "gross",
      "lardy",
      "overweight",
      "plump",
      "podgy",
      "portly",
      "pudgy",
      "replete",
      "roly-poly",
      "rotund",
      "round",
      "tubby"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110724",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "obesity":{
    "antonyms":[
      "leanness",
      "reediness",
      "slenderness",
      "slimness",
      "svelteness",
      "thinness"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body":[
        "Obesity affects not just appearance, but disease processes as well.",
        "\u2014 Malorye Allison"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "obesity has been linked to a number of health risks, such as heart disease",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Consumers have become increasingly aware of the health concerns associated with the overconsumption of sugar, such as obesity , diabetes and heart problems. \u2014 Ari Melamud, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "The heightened danger arises in part from the higher rates of comorbidities such as obesity , diabetes and heart, lung and kidney conditions among those with intellectual disabilities. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
      "For example, an unvaccinated person with multiple chronic conditions such as obesity , diabetes or chronic kidney disease. \u2014 Ariel Hart, ajc , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "That would most likely cover tens of millions of Americans who are older or have medical conditions such as obesity , diabetes or heart disease. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "The drugmaker studied its pill in people who were unvaccinated and who faced the greatest risk from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity . \u2014 CBS News , 18 Nov. 2021",
      "The company studied its pill in people who were unvaccinated and faced the worst risks from the virus because of age or health problems, such as obesity . \u2014 From Staff Reports, Arkansas Online , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "The company studied its pill in people who were unvaccinated and faced the worst risks from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity . \u2014 Matthew Perrone, chicagotribune.com , 16 Nov. 2021",
      "Queen Latifah is opening about her journey with body image, including being diagnosed with obesity . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French obesit\u00e9, borrowed from Latin ob\u0113sit\u0101t-, ob\u0113sit\u0101s, from ob\u0113sus \"fat, stout\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at obese":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0113-s\u0259-t\u0113",
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0113-s\u0259t-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "adiposity",
      "chubbiness",
      "corpulence",
      "corpulency",
      "embonpoint",
      "fat",
      "fatness",
      "fattiness",
      "fleshiness",
      "grossness",
      "plumpness",
      "portliness",
      "pudginess",
      "pursiness",
      "rotundity",
      "weight"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043850",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "obesogenic":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": promoting excessive weight gain : producing obesity":[
        "an obesogenic environment"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "And corporate lobbyists have blocked regulation of dangerous products like firearms, obesogenic foods and addictive medications. \u2014 Jacob Bor, Scientific American , 5 Mar. 2021",
      "The rules insulate you from the come-hither, obesogenic , food environment known as normal. \u2014 Tamar Haspel, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2020",
      "Before about 1950, few of us faced an obesogenic environment. \u2014 Tamar Haspel, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1970, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "obese + -o- + -genic":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccb\u0113-s\u0259-\u02c8je-nik, \u014d-",
      "\u0259-\u02ccb\u0113-s\u0259-\u02c8je-nik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183704",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "obey":{
    "antonyms":[
      "defy",
      "disobey",
      "rebel (against)"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to behave obediently":[
        "The dog does not always obey ."
      ],
      ": to conform to or comply with":[
        "obey an order",
        "Falling objects obey the laws of physics."
      ],
      ": to follow the commands or guidance of":[
        "He always obeys his parents."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "His dog has learned to obey several commands.",
      "He always obeys his parents.",
      "The children must obey the rules.",
      "The children must learn to obey .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those involved in criminal activity, and those failing to obey dispersal orders, are subject to arrest. \u2014 CBS News , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Officials urged people to obey evacuation orders and said those under evacuation warnings should gather important items such as medications and be prepared to take action if necessary. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2021",
      "In the case of Russia, if a no-fly zone was put in place over Ukraine, Russian forces don't have to necessarily obey the order; there is no imaginary forcefield preventing Russian President Vladimir Putin from ordering airstrikes on Ukraine. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "The parents in both Loudoun and Fairfax sued over their districts\u2019 refusal to obey an executive order Youngkin issued last month that sought to give parents across Virginia the right to opt their children out of masking requirements. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Refusing to obey a lawful order to disperse to maintain public safety. \u2014 Athena Ankrah, The Arizona Republic , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "Zuma's decision to obey the Constitutional Court order comes after a week of rising tensions over his prison sentence. \u2014 NBC News , 29 June 2021",
      "The defendants must not directly or indirectly contact any foreign officials or lawmakers, and must surrender all travel documents and obey a curfew order. \u2014 Eric Cheung And Cnn Staff, CNN , 4 Mar. 2021",
      "But an eclipse passes according to immutable laws of physics; memory and reckoning do not obey a similarly strict orbit. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 12 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English obeien, borrowed from Anglo-French obeir, going back to Latin oboed\u012bre, from ob- \"toward, in the direction of\" + -oed\u012bre, probably unstressed form (with -oe- of uncertain origin) of aud\u012bre \"to hear\" \u2014 more at ob- , audible entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d-\u02c8b\u0101",
      "\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "adhere (to)",
      "comply (with)",
      "conform (to)",
      "follow",
      "goose-step (to)",
      "mind",
      "observe"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010516",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "obeyable":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being obeyed":[
        "obeyable laws"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0259b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091141",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "obeyance":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an act or the custom of obeying : obedience":[
        "obeyance of laws"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0259n(t)s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165103",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "obelus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a symbol \u2212 or \u00f7 used in ancient manuscripts to mark a questionable passage":[],
      ": the symbol \u00f7":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "also \u02c8\u014d-",
      "\u02c8\u00e4-b\u0259-l\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin, borrowed from Greek obel\u00f3s, odel\u00f3s (Doric) \"spit, four-sided pointed pillar, obol, line in a manuscript marking a passage as spurious,\" perhaps of pre-Greek substratal origin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221045"
  },
  "Oberammergau":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "town in the state of Bavaria, southern Germany south-southwest of Munich population 4906":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u014d-b\u0259r-\u02c8\u00e4-m\u0259r-\u02ccgau\u0307"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225022"
  },
  "oberrealschule":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a German secondary school preparing students for the university and emphasizing modern languages and natural sciences rather than Latin or Greek \u2014 compare gymnasium":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-(r)r\u0101\u00a6\u00e4l\u02ccsh\u00fcl\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German, from ober upper (from Old High German obaro ) + realschule ; akin to Old High German ubar over":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-230330"
  },
  "Oberea":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a widely distributed genus of beetles (family Lamiidae) having larvae that are stem borers in various woody plants \u2014 see raspberry cane borer":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d\u02c8bir\u0113\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073721"
  },
  "Oberon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the king of the fairies in medieval folklore":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u014d-b\u0259-\u02ccr\u00e4n",
      "-r\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French, from Old French Auberon":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1533, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075522"
  },
  "oberek":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a Polish folk dance characterized by acrobatics for the man and marching steps for both partners":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d\u02c8ber\u0259\u0307k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Polish":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083616"
  },
  "Oberhausen":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "city in the Ruhr district, western Germany, west-northwest of Essen population 210,000":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u014d-b\u0259r-\u02cchau\u0307-z\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180220"
  }
}