defiance
[noun]
Synonyms: resistance, confrontation, contempt, disobedience, disregard, insolence, insubordination, opposition, rebelliousness

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Contrasted words: capitulation, submission, surrender, acquiescence, compliance, amenableness, docility, obedience, tractableness, submissiveness
Related Words: call, muster, summons, command, enjoinder, order, factiousness, insubordination, insurgency, rebelliousness, headstrongness, intractableness, unruliness, boldness, bravado, brazenness, impudence, insolence, audacity, effrontery, hardihood, temerity, contrariness, perversity

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

de‧fi‧ance /dɪˈfaɪəns/ noun [uncountable]
behaviour that shows you refuse to do what someone tells you to do, especially because you do not respect them ⇒ defy
act/gesture of defiance
Running away was an act of defiance against his parents.
in defiance (of something)
Many people were drinking in the streets, in flagrant defiance of the ban.
Her fists clenched in defiance.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

defiance
noun
ADJ. blatant, flagrant, open flagrant defiance of the rules
childish
PREP. in ~ (of) She held up a clenched fist in defiance. They organized a street demonstration in defiance of the government ban.
out of ~ I left the room untidy out of sheer defiance.
PHRASES an act of defiance, a gesture of defiance

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

defiance
dɪˈfaɪəns
See: in defiance of

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲