Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance |
| Synonyms: | contempt, disobedience, insubordination, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
| Main Entry: | fanaticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, arbitrariness, bias, bigotry, contumacy, dedication, devotion, dogma, enthusiasm, extremism, faction, frenzy, hatred, illiberality, immoderation, incorrigibility, infatuation, injustice, intolerance, madness, monomania, obsessiveness, obstinacy, partiality, partisanship, passion, prejudice, rage, single-mindedness, stubbornness, superstition, tenacity, transport, unfairness, unreasonableness, unruliness, violence, willfulness, zeal, zealotry |
| Antonyms: | disinterest, impartiality, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | stubbornness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, doggedness, indomitability, inflexibility, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness |
| Antonyms: | amenability, flexibility, indetermination, irresolution |
| Main Entry: | grimness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obdu, obduracy |
| Main Entry: | implacability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness |
| Main Entry: | implacableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacability, incompliance, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness |
| Main Entry: | incompliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness |
| Main Entry: | incompliancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness |
| Main Entry: | indocility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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