disobedience

Main Entry:
disobedience [dis-uh-bee-dee-uhns]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misbehavior; noncompliance with rules
Synonyms: defiance, dereliction, disregard, indiscipline, infraction, infringement, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, intractableness, mutiny, neglect, nonobservance, perversity, rebellion, recalcitrance, refractoriness, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, unruliness, violation, waywardness
Antonyms: behavior, obedience, observance, submission
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Disobedience.
Synonyms:
-nouns
disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance., revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute; riot, tumult (disorder); strike (resistance); barring out; defiance., mutinousness; mutineering; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire; lese majeste; violation of law; defection, secession., insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, rioter, traitor, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, runagate, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.
-verbs
disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces., turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike (resist); rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.
-adjectives
disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control; restiff, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant (refuse); recalcitrant; resisting; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous., unobeyed; unbidden.
-phrases
seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Tacitus]; "unthread the rude eye of rebellion" [King John].
Antonyms: obedience
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Main Entry: breach
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: violation of a law
Synonyms: barratry, contravention, delinquency, dereliction, disobedience, disregard, infraction, infringement, neglect, noncompliance, nonobservance, offense, transgression, trespass, violation
Notes: breach is an infraction, gap, or break; breech is the rear or lower portion of things
Antonyms: upholding
Main Entry: monkey business
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shenanigans
Synonyms: absurdity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, disobedience, foolery, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, horseplay, inanity, insanity, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, mischief-making, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock, prank, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot
Main Entry: mutiny
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: defiance, resistance
Synonyms: disobedience, insubordination, insurrection, refusal to obey, revolt, revolution, riot, rising, strike, uprising
Antonyms: obedience, subservience
Main Entry: nonconformity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, behavior different from most
Synonyms: bohemianism, breach, contumaciousness, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, mutinousness, negation, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconsent, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation
Antonyms: compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy
Main Entry: rebellion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disobedience; revolt
Synonyms: apostasy, defiance, disobedience, dissent, heresy, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, nonconformity, revolution, rising, schism, uprising
Notes: rebellion is open resistance to a government or authority; revolution is a rebellion that succeeds in overthrowing the government and establishing a new one
Antonyms: calm, harmony, peace
Main Entry: sedition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rebellion
Synonyms: agitation, defiance, disobedience, dissent, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, revolt, revolution, treason, uprising
Main Entry: sin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illegal or immoral action
Synonyms: anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, evil-doing, fault, gluttony, guilt, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, pride, shortcoming, sinfulness, sloth, tort, transgression, trespass, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness
Antonyms: behavior, goodness, morality
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