insubmission

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
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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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