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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | anarchical, contumacious, disobedient, factious, insubordinate, insurrectionary, mutinous, revolting, revolutionary, riotous, seditious |
| Antonyms: | obedient, subordinate |
| Main Entry: | anarchist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who opposes the idea of government and laws |
| Synonyms: | agitator, insurgent, insurrectionist, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, terrorist |
| Main Entry: | contumacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | headstrong, obstinate |
| Synonyms: | alienated, contrary, disaffected, estranged, factious, froward, haughty, inflexible, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, intransigent, irreconcilable, mutinous, obdurate, perverse, pig-headed, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, seditious, stubborn, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | following, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing |
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
| Synonyms: | alienated, belligerent, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, estranged, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, troublemaking, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent |
| Notes: | factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | incendiary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who causes fire, trouble |
| Synonyms: | agitator, arsonist, criminal, demagogue, demonstrator, firebrand, insurgent, pyromaniac, rabble-rouser, rebel, revolutionary, rioter |
| Main Entry: | inflammatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instigative, angering |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, demagogic, exciting, explosive, fiery, incendiary, incitive, inflaming, insurgent, intemperate, provocative, rabble-rousing, rabid, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious |
| Antonyms: | calming, mitigating, placating, pleasing, tranquilizing |
| 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: | lawless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, ungoverned |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, bad, barbarous, chaotic, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, infringing, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, piratical, rebellious, recusant, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, terrorizing, traitorous, turbulent, tyrannous, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unpeaceful, unrestrained, unruly, untamed, violent, warlike, wild |
| Antonyms: | governed, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, proper, rightful, valid |
| 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 |
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