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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder, confusion, mess |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, chaos, clutter, disarrangement, discomposure, disharmony, dishevelment, disorganization, holy mess, indiscipline, jumble, muddle, shambles, snarl, tangle, topsy-turviness, unholy mess, unruliness, untidiness, upset |
| Antonyms: | arrangement, harmony, order, orderliness, organization |
| Main Entry: | insubordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience |
| Synonyms: | defiance, dereliction, disregard, dissension, indiscipline, infringement, insurrection, mutiny, noncompliance, noncooperation, nonobservance, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage |
| Main Entry: | misbehavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | naughty act, conduct |
| Synonyms: | acting up, fault, immorality, impropriety, incivility, indiscipline, insubordination, mischief, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, monkey business, naughtiness, rudeness, shenanigans*, transgression, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | behavior, good conduct, manners, obedience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misdoing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior |
| Synonyms: | acting up, fault, horseplay, immorality, impropriety, incivility, indiscipline, insubordination, mischief, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, monkey business, naughtiness, rudeness, shenanigans*, transgression, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | naughtiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior |
| Synonyms: | acting up, fault, horseplay, immorality, impropriety, incivility, indiscipline, insubordination, mischief, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, monkey business, rudeness, shenanigans*, transgression, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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contumacious, disobedient, factious, froward, impatient of control, insubordinate, insurgent, iscariotic, lawless, mutinous, proditorious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, resisting, restiff, restive, riotous, seditious, sequacious, unbidden, uncompliant, uncomplying, ungovernable, unobeyed, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward
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| Concept: | Disobedience. |
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-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].
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| Antonyms: | obedience |
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