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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, disregardful |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, audacious, bold, challenging, contumacious, daring, gutsy, insolent, insubmissive, insubordinate, mutinous, obstinate, provocative, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, resistant, resistive, sassy*, truculent |
| Antonyms: | acquiescent, obedient, respectful, submissive, submitting, subordinating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, audacious, chin-up, chivalrous, confident, courageous, daring, dashing, dauntless, defiant, doughty, fearless, firm, foolhardy, forward, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, hardy, heroic, herolike, imprudent, indomitable, intrepid, lionhearted, militant, nervy, plucky, reckless, resolute, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, strong, unabashed, unafraid, unblenching, undauntable, undaunted, undismayed, unfearful, valiant, valorous, venturesome |
| Antonyms: | afraid, cautious, fearful, frightened, humble, meek, reticent, retiring, shy, timid |
| Main Entry: | brazen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brash, unashamed |
| Synonyms: | audacious, barefaced, blatant, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, defiant, flashy, flip, forward, gritty, gutsy, hotshot, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, loud, meretricious, nervy, overbold, pert, saucy, shameless, smart-alecky, smart-ass, spunky, tawdry, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, shamed, shamefaced, shy, timid |
| Main Entry: | insubordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, dissentious, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncomplying, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly |
| Antonyms: | behaved, compliant, obedient |
| Main Entry: | ironic/ironical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acrid, alert, arrogant, backbiting, biting, bitter, burlesque, caustic, chaffing, clever, contemptuous, contradictory, critical, cutting, cynical, defiant, derisive, disparaging, double-edged, exaggerated, implausible, incisive, incongruous, jibing, keen, mocking, mordant, paradoxical, pungent, quick-witted, ridiculous, sardonic, satiric, satirical, scathing, scoffing, sharp, sneering, spicy, trenchant, twisted, uncomplimentary, witty, wry |
| Antonyms: | considerate, deferential |
| Main Entry: | mutinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | anarchistic, contumacious, defiant, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, radical, rebel, revolutionary, rioting, riotous, subversive, traitorous, treasonable, ungovernable, unmanageable |
| Main Entry: | pugnacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, bellicose, brawling, cantankerous, chip on shoulder, choleric, combative, contentious, defiant, disputatious, have a bone to pick, hot-tempered, irascible, irritable, itching to fight, militant, petulant, pushing, pushy*, quarrelsome, ready to fight, rebellious, salty, scrappy, self-assertive, truculent, warlike |
| Antonyms: | easy-going, kind, laid-back, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rebellious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | alienated, anarchistic, attacking, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, fractious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, individualistic, insurgent, insurrectionary, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restless, revolutionary, rioting, riotous, sabotaging, seditious, threatening, treasonable, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, warring |
| Antonyms: | compliant, governable, manageable, obedient |
| Main Entry: | recalcitrant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, uncontrollable |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, resisting, stubborn, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, unwilling, wayward, wild, willful, withstanding |
| Antonyms: | amenable, obedient, passive |
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