rebellious

rebellious
I
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Engaged in armed rebellion]
Syn. revolutionary, insurgent, counterrevolutionary, warring, insurrectionary, attacking, rioting, mutinous, rebel; see also sense 2, 3.
Ant. beaten*, overwhelmed, loyal.
2. [Inclined toward rebellion]
Syn. dissident, factious, seditious, fractious, disobedient, treasonable, refractory, defiant, resistant, restless, restive, riotous, insubordinate, quarrelsome, bellicose, sabotaging, subversive, disloyal, disaffected, alienated, ungovernable, unruly, threatening.
Ant. docile*, peaceful, acquiescent.
3. [Apt to oppose authority]
Syn. anarchistic, iconoclastic, individualistic, radical, pugnacious, quarrelsome, independent-minded, stubborn, contemptuous, insolent, contumacious, alienated, scornful, uncontrollable, intractable, unyielding, recalcitrant, disobedient, feisty*; see also lawless 2 .
Ant. dutiful, tractable, yielding*.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
revolutionary, defiant, disobedient, resistant, iconoclastic, nonconforming, insurgent, insurrectionary, mutinous, recalcitrant, seditious, riotous, ungovernable.
ANT.: conforming, passive, *following the herd, docile, obedient
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Participating in open revolt against a government or ruling authority: insurgent, mutinous, revolutionary. See RESIST.

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