Englishrebellious
adjective
1 rebellious troops:
rebel, insurgent, mutinous, disorderly, lawless, out of control, mutinying, rebelling, rioting, riotous, revolutionary, seditious, subversive;
breakaway, traitorous, renegade;
rare insurrectionary, insurrectionist.
▷antonyms obedient, law-abiding.
2 a rebellious adolescent:
defiant, disobedient, insubordinate, unruly, ungovernable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, turbulent, mutinous, wayward, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, intractable, resistant, dissentient, disaffected, malcontent;
nonconformist;
British, informal bolshie;
archaic contumacious.
▷antonyms conformist, compliant.
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