rebel

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. i. revolt, resist, mutiny, rise up. See disobedience.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A person engaged in a political revolution]

Syn. insurrectionist, revolutionary, revolutionist, agitator, insurgent, insurrectionary, traitor, seditionist, mutineer, subversive, subverter, anarchist, overthrower, nihilist, guerrilla, freedom fighter, member of the uprising, rioter, demagogue, revolter, separatist, malcontent, dissident, schismatic, deserter, dissenter, seceder, apostate, sectarian, turncoat, counterrevolutionary, renegade, secessionist, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyite, underground worker, Third Worlder, refusenik; see also radical .

2. [A person of independent opinions]

Syn. independent, individualist, iconoclast, nonconformist, maverick, innovator, experimenter, experientialist, malcontent.

v.

1. [To resist or endeavor to overthrow a government or other authority]

Syn. rise up, rise, resist, revolt, turn against, defy, resist authority, resist lawful authority, fight in the streets, strike, boycott, break with, overturn, mutiny, riot, take up arms against, start an uprising, start a confrontation, secede, renounce, combat, oppose, be insubordinate, be treasonable, upset, overthrow, dethrone, disobey, raise hell*, kick up a row*, run amok*.

Ant. submit, obey*, be contented.

2. [To object]

Syn. dispute, resist, shrink from, be repelled; see oppose 1 , recoil .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

revolutionary, insurrectionist, malcontent, nonconformist, dissenter, insurgent, mutineer, iconoclast, anarchist, independent, opponent, traitor, young Turk.

ANT.: conformist, follower, *sheep

II

v.

revolt, defy, disobey, resist, fight, dissent, rise up, oppose, mutiny, riot, overthrow.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To refuse allegiance to and oppose by force a government or ruling authority: mutiny, revolt, rise (up). See RESIST. II noun A person who rebels: insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, revolutionary, revolutionist. See RESIST.