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verb [ I or T ] uk / ˌdɪs.əˈbeɪ / us / ˌdɪs.əˈbeɪ / to refuse to do something that you are told to do: How dare you disobey me! to disobey orders. Opposite. obey. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Obeying & breaking the law. abide by something. adhere to something. afoul. bac. bend. buck. comply. contravene. derogate. derogation.
-ō- disobeyed; disobeying; disobeys. Synonyms of disobey. intransitive verb. : to be disobedient. transitive verb. : to fail to obey. disobeyer noun. Synonyms. defy. mock. rebel (against) See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of disobey in a Sentence. If you disobey, you will be severely punished.
to intentionally fail to do what you are told or expected to do; not obey: [ T ] Half of the city’s drivers tend to disobey rules and behave poorly. (Definition of disobey from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. defy, ignore, rebel, resist, disregard, refuse to obey, dig your heels in (informal), go counter to a naughty boy who often disobeyed his mother. 2. infringe, defy, refuse to obey, flout, violate, contravene, overstep, transgress, go counter to He was forever disobeying the rules.
When you obey someone's rules, you follow them strictly. The verb disobey combines the Latin obedire, "serve, pay attention to, or listen," with dis, which here means "not." The original Latin version of disobey, inobedire, used in rather than dis.
verb (used with or without object) to neglect or refuse to obey. Synonyms: oppose, ignore, resist, disregard, defy. disobey. / ˌdɪsəˈbeɪ / verb. to neglect or refuse to obey (someone, an order, etc)
disobey (somebody/something) to refuse to do what a person, a law, an order, etc. tells you to do; to refuse to obey. He was punished for disobeying orders. How dare you disobey me! She sighed deeply but dared not disobey.
