rebellious
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- revolutionary, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, insurgent, mutinous, rebel, seditious, unruly
- defiant, difficult, refractory, resistant, unmanageable

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Contrasted words: acquiescent, resigned, submissive
Related Words: alienated, disaffected, estranged

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

re‧bel‧lious /rɪˈbeljəs/ adjective

1. deliberately not obeying people in authority or rules of behaviour:
rebellious teenagers
He’s always had a rebellious streak (=a tendency to rebel).

2. fighting against the government of your own country:
rebellious minorities
—rebelliously adverb
—rebelliousness noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲