Law-abiding — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Law-abiding (adjective) — Senses, Synonyms & Antonyms

1. readily giving in to the command or authority of another

   "the law-abiding citizens of the neighborhood did everything they could to help reduce street crime"

   similar: amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, submissive, tractable
   related: acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, duteous, dutiful, obliging, placable, soft, surrendering, yielding, fawning, kowtowing, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, subordinate, subservient, decorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderly, constrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained, controllable, disciplinable, governable, handleable, manageable, tame, teachable, trainable, gentle, meek, mild
   opposite: balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful
   near: insurgent, mutinous, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild, balky, defiant, perverse, resistant, bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty, ill-bred, undisciplined, dissident, nonconformist, disrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude