If you always do what you’re told, you can be described as obedient. Authority figures love to have obedient followers.
Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.
Adjective
dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
a.
Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey;
submissive to restraint, control, or command.
Obedient
And floating straight, obedient to the stream.
The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command.
Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.
Usage Examples
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
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Other Usage ExamplesNoah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
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