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rebelliousness
noun as in contumacy
noun as in defiance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in indocility
Weak matches
- 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
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
noun as in intractability
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- wildness
noun as in intractableness
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractability
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- wildness
noun as in obstinateness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in obstreperousness
Strong matches
noun as in recalcitrance
Strong matches
noun as in recalcitrance
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- despite
- effrontery
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- recalcitrancy
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unruliness
noun as in recalcitrancy
Strong matches
noun as in recalcitrancy
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- despite
- effrontery
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- recalcitrance
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unruliness
noun as in refractoriness
Strong matches
noun as in uncontrollability
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in uncontrollableness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in ungovernableness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in unmanageability
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in untowardness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
Example Sentences
It shows my rebelliousness, “Life, you are not going to get me down. I am going to look at the sun.”
Doherty, as Brenda, spent countless hours keeping us company on TV with an unforgettable and relatable portrayal of a teenage girl dealing with competing emotions — insecurity, angst and rebelliousness among them.
First, I noticed the degree of rebelliousness exuded by several of them.
He tested boundaries and, when physically disciplined by his father for his rebelliousness, he fought back.
Sadness, rebelliousness and a puckish sense of humor are there in her eyes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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