DISOBEY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they disobey ... he / she / it disobeys

Past simple: disobeyed

Past participle: disobeyed

-ing form: disobeying

Meaning:

Refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient

Example:

He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "disobey" is one way to...):

decline; refuse (show unwillingness towards)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disobey"):

sit in (participate in an act of civil disobedience)

counteract; countermine; sabotage; subvert; undermine; weaken (destroy property or hinder normal operations)

balk; baulk; jib; resist (refuse to comply)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

obey (be obedient to)

Derivation:

disobedience (the failure to obey)

disobedient (not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority)

disobedient (unwilling to submit to authority)