He hurled defiance at me.
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Defiance
Synonyms for "defiance" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (49)
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4 entriesderived
5 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
39 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- непокорство noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- предизвикателство noun (challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge)
Catalan
1 entries- desafiament noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بەربەرەکانی noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 反抗 noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- 蔑視 /蔑视 noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Czech
1 entries- vzdor noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Dutch
2 entries- koppigheid noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- opstandigheid noun (the feeling of being defiant)
French
1 entries- défi noun (the feeling of being defiant)
German
4 entries- Auflehnung noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- Herausforderung noun (challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge)
- Trotz noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- Widersetzung noun (open resistance to authority, opposition, or power)
Interlingua
1 entries- defiantia noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Irish
1 entries- dúshlán noun (challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge)
Italian
1 entries- sfida noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Japanese
2 entries- 反抗 noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- 無視 noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Latin
1 entries- contumācia noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Macedonian
1 entries- пркос noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Māori
2 entries- whakatumatuma noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- whakatōreatanga noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Norwegian
1 entries- motstand motvilje trass noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Polish
1 entries- opór noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Portuguese
1 entries- desafio noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Russian
3 entries- неповинове́ние noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- непоко́рство noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- пренебреже́ние noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Spanish
4 entries- desafiamiento noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- desafiamiento noun (open resistance to authority, opposition, or power)
- desafío noun (the feeling of being defiant)
- desafío noun (open resistance to authority, opposition, or power)
Turkish
1 entries- meydan okuma noun (the feeling of being defiant)
Ukrainian
1 entries- спро́тив noun (open resistance to authority, opposition, or power)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He kept on drinking in defiance of his doctor's warning.
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He shouted defiance at me.
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He jumped into the river in defiance of the icy water.
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Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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