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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstinacy |
| Synonyms: | bullheadedness, determination, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinance, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, pigheadedness, purpose, reluctance, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | defiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience, disregard |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
| Antonyms: | acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | hardheadedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstinacy |
| Synonyms: | bullheadedness, determination, doggedness, mulishness, obstinance, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, purpose, reluctance, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | indocility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intractability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intractableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mulishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstinacy |
| Synonyms: | bullheadedness, determination, doggedness, hardheadedness, obstinance, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, purpose, reluctance, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness |
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