What are the opposite words for obedience?
Antonyms for the word obedience refer to the opposite meaning of following or adhering to rules, commands, or laws. These antonyms may indicate disobedience, rebellion, defiance, insubordination, or noncompliance. Disobedience is the act of not following the authority or not listening to the rules. Rebellion is an open defiance of those rules, laws, or authority. Defiance denotes resistance to authority or control. Insubordination is the refusal of obedience or the failure to submit to authority. Noncompliance is the act of neglecting or disregarding the instructions, laws, or regulations. These antonyms are essential in understanding the concept of obedience and its opposite.
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- wrong
- error
- attribute
- act
- opposition
- defiance
- disobedience
- contempt
- offense
- crime
- vice
- guilt
- interruption
- neglect
- revolt
- breach
- default
- delinquency
- fault
- injustice
- insubordination
- invasion
- lapse
- misapplication
- misbehavior
- mischief
- misconduct
- misdeed
- nonconformity
- unfairness
- violation
- abuse
- commotion
- infraction
- insurrection
- intrusion
- misdemeanor
- mistake
- nihilism
- outbreak
- outrage
- rebellion
- sacrilege
- sin
- transgression
- trespass
- uprising
- wrongdoing
- wrong use
- mutiny
- violation of a law
- clamor, uproar
- disdain, disrespect
- offense against the law
- felony
- failure; want
- disobedience, disregard
- misbehavior; noncompliance with rules
- mistake; wrong
- blame, sin; mistake
- blame; bad conscience over responsibility
- unfair treatment; bias
- attack, encroachment
- abuse, misconduct
- naughty act, conduct
- trouble, damage
- bad or unethical behavior
- criminal offense
- refusal to believe
- belief, behavior different from most
- good behavior; submissiveness
- violation, trespass
- obstruction, antagonism
- sudden happening
- atrocity, evil
- disobedience; revolt
- illegal or immoral action
- violation, misbehavior
- invasion, offense
- unjustness
- bad habit; sin
- breach; breaking of the law
- offense, sin
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- wrong
-
error
- boo-boo,
- howler,
- mismanagement,
- screamer,
- Misbelief,
- XS,
- booboos,
- screamers,
- booboo,
- howlers,
- bad job,
- bad jobs,
- boo-boos,
- in accuracies,
- in accuracy,
- in-accuracies,
- in-accuracy,
- mis apprehensions,
- mis belief,
- mis beliefs,
- mis calculation,
- mis conception,
- mis conceptions,
- mis cue,
- mis cues,
- mis judgment,
- mis judgments,
- mis management,
- mis managements,
- mis steps,
- mis understanding,
- mis understandings,
- mis-apprehension,
- mis-apprehensions,
- mis-belief,
- mis-beliefs,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- mis-conception,
- mis-conceptions,
- mis-cue,
- mis-cues,
- mis-judgment,
- mis-management,
- mis-managements,
- mis-understanding,
- mis-understandings,
- misbeliefs,
- mismanagements,
- screw ups,
- screw-ups,
- un truth,
- un truths,
- un-truth,
- un-truths.
- attribute
- act
-
opposition
- negativism,
- unfriendliness,
- Antinomies,
- Antinomy,
- Oppugnancy,
- obstructiveness,
- anti thesis,
- anti-thesis,
- confrontings,
- counter action,
- counter actions,
- counter attack,
- counter attacks,
- counter-action,
- counter-actions,
- counter-attack,
- counter-attacks,
- de fenses,
- de-fenses,
- negativisms,
- obstructivenesses,
- opposures,
- oppugnancies,
- un friendliness,
- un friendlinesses,
- un-friendlinesses.
-
defiance
- rebelliousness,
- spite,
- Impugnment,
- enjoinders,
- enjoinder,
- Factiousness,
- de fiance,
- de fiances,
- de-fiance,
- de-fiances,
- factiousnesses,
- impugnments,
- in tractableness,
- in tractablenesses,
- in-tractableness,
- in-tractablenesses,
- pro vocation,
- pro vocations,
- pro-vocation,
- pro-vocations,
- rebelliousnesses,
- throwing gauntlet,
- throwing of gauntlet,
- throwing of the gauntlet,
- throwing the gauntlet.
-
disobedience
- indiscipline,
- insubordination,
- Insubmission,
- waywardness,
- dis obedience,
- dis obediences,
- dis-obedience,
- dis-obediences,
- in discipline,
- in disciplines,
- in submission,
- in submissions,
- in-discipline,
- in-disciplines,
- in-submission,
- in-submissions,
- indisciplines,
- insubmissions,
- non observance,
- re volution,
- re volutions,
- re-volution,
- re-volutions,
- waywardnesses.
- contempt
-
offense
- zinger,
- flare up,
- zingers,
- muggings,
- putdown,
- slap in the face,
- dirty dig,
- dirty digs,
- dis pleasure,
- dis pleasures,
- dis-pleasure,
- dis-pleasures,
- ex plosion,
- ex plosions,
- ex-plosion,
- flareup,
- left handed compliment,
- out burst,
- out bursts,
- out-burst,
- out-bursts,
- slap face,
- slap in face,
- slap the face,
- wounded feeling,
- wounded feelings.
-
crime
- criminality,
- fast one,
- felony,
- illegality,
- immorality,
- misdeed,
- tort,
- Delict,
- Malefaction,
- Torts,
- antisocial behavior,
- antisocial behaviors,
- criminalities,
- delicts,
- delictum,
- delictums,
- evil behaviors,
- fast ones,
- male faction,
- male factions,
- male-faction,
- male-factions,
- malefactions,
- unlawful act,
- unlawful acts.
- vice
-
guilt
- blameworthiness,
- self-reproach,
- sinfulness,
- blameworthinesses,
- dis grace,
- dis graces,
- dis honor,
- dis honors,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graces,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honors,
- peccabilities,
- re morse,
- re morses,
- re-morse,
- re-morses,
- self condemnation,
- self condemnations,
- self reproach,
- self reproaches,
- self-condemnations,
- selfcondemnation,
- selfcondemnations,
- selfreproach,
- selfreproaches,
- sinfulnesses.
- interruption
-
neglect
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- pretermission,
- pretermissions,
- de lay,
- de lays,
- de-lay,
- de-lays,
- dis respect,
- dis respects,
- dis-respect,
- dis-respects,
- disregardance,
- disregardances,
- in advertences,
- in attention,
- in attentions,
- in consideration,
- in considerations,
- in difference,
- in differences,
- in-advertence,
- in-advertences,
- in-attention,
- in-attentions,
- in-consideration,
- in-difference,
- in-differences,
- neglectfulnesses,
- un concern,
- un concerns,
- un-concern,
- un-concerns.
- revolt
- breach
- default
- delinquency
- fault
-
injustice
- unfairness,
- unjustness,
- in equity,
- crying shame,
- crying shames,
- dirty deal,
- dirty deals,
- dis crimination,
- dis criminations,
- dis-crimination,
- dis-criminations,
- in equalities,
- in equality,
- in equities,
- in justices,
- in-equalities,
- in-equality,
- in-equity,
- in-justice,
- mis carriage,
- mis carriages,
- mis-carriages,
- un lawfulness,
- un lawfulnesses,
- un-lawfulness,
- un-lawfulnesses.
- insubordination
- invasion
- lapse
- misapplication
- misbehavior
- mischief
- misconduct
- misdeed
-
nonconformity
- heterodoxy,
- iconoclasm,
- nonacceptance,
- recusancy,
- strangeness,
- unconventionality,
- unorthodoxy,
- Bohemianism,
- nonagreement,
- Contumaciousness,
- Mutinousness,
- non-conformity,
- nonconsent,
- recusance,
- transgressiveness,
- bohemianisms,
- contumaciousnesses,
- dis affection,
- dis affections,
- dis agreement,
- dis agreements,
- dis approbation,
- dis approbations,
- dis approval,
- dis approvals,
- dis sent,
- dis sents,
- dis-affection,
- dis-affections,
- dis-agreement,
- dis-agreements,
- dis-approbation,
- dis-approbations,
- dis-approval,
- dis-approvals,
- dis-sent,
- dis-sents,
- hetero doxies,
- hetero doxy,
- hetero-doxies,
- hetero-doxy,
- heterodoxies,
- iconoclasms,
- mutinousnesses,
- non acceptance,
- non acceptances,
- non agreement,
- non agreements,
- non conformities,
- non conformity,
- non consent,
- non consents,
- non-acceptance,
- non-acceptances,
- non-agreement,
- non-agreements,
- non-conformities,
- non-consent,
- non-consents,
- nonacceptances,
- nonagreements,
- nonconsents,
- recusances,
- recusancies,
- transgressivenesses,
- un conventionalities,
- un conventionality,
- un orthodoxies,
- un orthodoxy,
- un-conventionalities,
- un-conventionality,
- un-orthodoxies,
- un-orthodoxy,
- unconventionalities,
- unorthodoxies.
- unfairness
- violation
- abuse
-
commotion
- hurly burly,
- TODO,
- big scene,
- big scenes,
- big stink,
- big stinks,
- dis composure,
- dis composures,
- dis quiet,
- dis quiets,
- dis-composure,
- dis-composures,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quiets,
- hell broke looses,
- hurlyburly,
- out cries,
- out-cries,
- out-cry,
- to do,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up turn,
- up turns,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-turn,
- up-turns.
- infraction
- insurrection
- intrusion
- misdemeanor
- mistake
- nihilism
- outbreak
- outrage
- rebellion
- sacrilege
-
sin
- gluttony,
- ungodliness,
- unrighteousness,
- wrongness,
- Gluttonies,
- Veniality,
- evil-doing,
- de merit,
- de merits,
- de-merit,
- de-merits,
- evil-doings,
- un godliness,
- un godlinesses,
- un righteousness,
- un righteousnesses,
- un-godliness,
- un-righteousness,
- un-righteousnesses,
- unrighteousnesses,
- venialities,
- wrongnesses.
- transgression
- trespass
- uprising
- wrongdoing
- wrong use
- mutiny
- violation of a law
- clamor, uproar
- disdain, disrespect
- offense against the law
- felony
- failure; want
- disobedience, disregard
- misbehavior; noncompliance with rules
- mistake; wrong
- blame, sin; mistake
- blame; bad conscience over responsibility
- unfair treatment; bias
- attack, encroachment
- abuse, misconduct
- naughty act, conduct
- trouble, damage
- bad or unethical behavior
- criminal offense
- refusal to believe
- belief, behavior different from most
- good behavior; submissiveness
- violation, trespass
- obstruction, antagonism
- sudden happening
- atrocity, evil
- disobedience; revolt
-
illegal or immoral action
- sin.
- violation, misbehavior
- invasion, offense
- unjustness
-
bad habit; sin
- vice.
- breach; breaking of the law
- offense, sin
-
Other relevant words
- animosity,
- antipathy,
- balkiness,
- breach,
- challenge,
- contrariness,
- contravention,
- contumacy,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- disaffection,
- disloyalty,
- disregard,
- disrespect,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- enmity,
- hostility,
- impudence,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- insolence,
- insurgency,
- insurrection,
- intractability,
- misbehavior,
- mischievousness,
- mulishness,
- naughtiness,
- neglect,
- noncompliance,
- nonobservance,
- obstreperousness,
- offense,
- outbreak,
- overlooking,
- perversity,
- pigheadedness,
- rebelling,
- rebelliousness,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- revolt,
- rudeness,
- sedition,
- self-will,
- sin,
- transgression,
- treason,
- trespass,
- unruliness,
- violation,
- willfulness,
- wrong,
- Flouting,
- Insurgence,
- brush off,
- waywardness,
- noncooperation,
- hardheadedness,
- obstinateness,
- frowardness.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
were one back
- Antonyms:
- aid, discourage, dissuade.
