ted Words: juratory, profane,
imprecate.
oath-breaking, n. perjury.
obedience, n. compliance, submission, subservience; dutifulness.
Antonyms: disobedience, incompliance, defiance, revolt, insubordination.
obedient, a. submissive, tractable, deferential, subservient,
compliant, dutiful, docile, amenable. Antonyms: unsubmissive,
intractable, disobedient.
obelisk, n. Associated Words: pyramidion, monolithic,
hieroglyphics.
obey, v. comply, submit to, heed, regard, be ruled by.
object, v. disapprove, oppose, demur, contravene, gainsay, except,
cavil.
object, n. thing, article; goal, purpose, aim, motive, intent,
design, target, butt, destination, view.
objection, n. exception, scruple, demurrer, cavil. Antonyms:
approval, acquiescence.
objectionable, a. exceptionable, offensive, obnoxious, undesirable,
displeasing.
objectless, a. aimless, desultory, purposeless, vague.
obligation, n. accountableness, responsibility, incumbency, duty,
indebtedness; agreement, contract, stipulation, covenant, bond.
obligatory, a. binding, incumbent, imperative, coercive. Antonyms:
optional, discretional.
oblige, v. constrain, obligate; please, gratify, accommodate, coerce,
compel, necessitate, force.
obliging, a. complaisant, gracious, accommodating, affable, debonair,
deferential, yielding.
obliterate, v. efface, erase, blot out, remove, destroy, expunge.
obliteration, n. extinction, erasure, effacement, removal.
oblivious, a. unmindful, unconscious, forgetful, heedless,
disregardful.
obnoxious, a. subject, liable; offensive, odious, hateful,
displeasing.
obscene, a. smutty, lewd, gross, indecent, immodest, indelicate,
ribald.
obscenity, n. lewdness, smut, ribaldry, indecency, bawdiness,
immodesty.
obscure, a. abstruse, vague, recondite, indefinite, ambiguous;
humble, inglorious, mean, undistinguished; secluded, retired, remote;
shaded, darkened.
obscure, v. darken, obfuscate, bedim, eclipse; involve, dissemble,
disguise, confuse.
obscuring, n. obscuration, obscurity.
obscurity, n. ambiguity, vagueness; privacy, seclusion, retirement;
darkness, obfuscation, obscuration.
obsequious, a. sycophantic, cringing, fawning, deferential, servile.
obsequiousness, n. sycophancy.
obsolete, a. disused, archaic, antiquated, unfashionable,
old-fashioned.
obstacle, n. obstruction, barrier, impediment, hindrance,
stumbling-block.
obstetrician, n. midwife, accoucheur.
obstetrics, n.
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