insubordinate
51recusant — re·cu·sant / re kyə zənt, ri kyü / adj: refusing to submit to authority the recusant witness failed to appear despite a subpoena recusant n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
52restive — I adjective averse, balking, balky, cantankerous, contumacious, crossgrained, crotchety, deaf to reason, demurring, difficult, discontented, disinclined, disobedient, exceptious, excitable, excited, fidgety, fractious, fretful, grumpy, headstrong …
53unruly — I adjective chaotic, contrary, contumacious, disobedient, disorderly, effrenatus, ferox, fractious, froward, hard to control, headstrong, incorrigible, indocile, insubordinate, intractable, irrepressible, lawless, mutinous, obstinate,… …
54insubordination — in‧su‧bor‧di‧na‧tion [ˌɪnsəbɔːdˈneɪʆn ǁ ɔːr ] noun [uncountable] when you refuse to obey someone of a higher rank: • He was fired for insubordination. insubordinate adjective : • an insubordinate new recruit * * * insubordination UK US… …
55lawless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. disorderly, unruly, insubordinate, mutinous. See illegality, disobedience. Ant., lawful, law abiding. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Without law] Syn. wild, untamed, uncivilized, savage, native,… …
56unruly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unmanageable, insubordinate, obstreperous, fractious, refractory, ungovernable, turbulent, boisterous, balky. See disobedience. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. uncontrollable, willful, headstrong,… …
57mutinous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. insubordinate, riotous, anarchistic; see lawless 1 , 2 , radical 2 , rebellious 1 , 2 , 3 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. rebellious, subversive, riotous, insurrectionary, insurgent, revolutionary, seditious,… …
58noncompliant — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. negative, divergent, irregular, refusing, declinatory, refractory, impatient, contumacious; see also rebellious 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. incompliant, disobedient, rebellious, insubordinate, unruly, rejecting …
59rebel — 1. noun 1) the rebels took control of the capital Syn: revolutionary, insurgent, revolutionist, mutineer, insurrectionist, insurrectionary, guerrilla, terrorist, freedom fighter 2) the concept of the artist as a rebel Syn: nonconformist …
60rebel — [adj] not obeying insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebellious, revolutionary; concept 401 Ant. complaisant, compliant, obedient rebel [n] person who does not obey agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter …
