Synonyms for Rebellious

Synonyms for "rebellious" (165 found)

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Closest matches (33)

alienated beefing bellicose bellyaching bitching breakaway complaining complaintful contrary contumacious crabbing crabby cranky croaking defiant difficult disaffected disappointed discontented disgruntled

Noun(5 words)

armed insurgent groupcatalan rebel·liócatalan revoluciócultural rebelliondefying

Adjective(7 words)

bolshie byronic creativecultural rebellion themesdefiantdefiant posturedisaffected

Verb(1 words)

bucked

Strong matches (50)

disobedient disorderly displeased disputatious disputing dissatisfied dissentient dissenting envious estranged extreme extremistic factious faultfinding fractious griping grouchy grousing growling grumbling

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incorrigible inflammatory insubordinate insurgent insurrectionary malcontent malcontented murmuring mutineering mutinous muttering noncooperative objecting

Adjective(10 words)

disobedient ill-affectedindependent mindedinnovative insubordinateinsurrectionary ideologymalcontent noncompliantnonconforming conductnonconformist

Verb(3 words)

disobeying flouted mutinied

Noun(4 words)

insurgent groupmore insurrectionarynonconformist thinkernot cooperative

Related words (82)

obstinate obstructiveon the barricadesout of humorpeevish petulantproof againstprotesting pugnacious querulant querulous rebel recalcitrant refractory reluctant renitent repellent resentful resistant resisting

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Adjective(16 words)

obstreperous oppositionalparental noncompliancepunkest punky rebellion-relatedrevolutionary curriculumrevolutionary grouprevolutionary idearevolutionary ideasrevolutionary leaderrevolutionary leadersrevolutionary technologyrevolutionary thinkerunruliest unruly

Noun(9 words)

rebel uprisingrebelling renegaderevolutionary actsrevolutionary labelstudent rebellionupraising uprisingwillful disobedience

Verb(3 words)

revolted revolting subverting

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

2 entries

behavioral traitcharacter trait

More specific

4 entries

independent learnernonconformist thinkerrebellious actrebellious student

Collocations

5 entries

rebellious attituderebellious behaviorrebellious ideasrebellious streakrebellious student

Inflections

2 entries

more rebelliousmost rebellious

Derivations

1 entries

rebelliousness

similar

4 entries

discontent discontented disloyal insubordinate

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Children have a tendency to become rebellious.

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Tom is a rebellious boy.

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Mary is a rebellious girl.

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My son is a rebellious teenager.

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Rebellious