What is another word for defiance?
1309 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪfˈa͡ɪ͡əns], [ dɪfˈaɪəns], [ d_ɪ_f_ˈaɪə_n_s]
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Similar words for defiance:
- act (noun)
- attribute (noun)
- audacity (noun)
- bravery (noun)
- challenge (noun)
- confrontation (noun)
- contempt (noun)
- contradiction (noun)
- counteraction (noun)
- defiance (noun)
- desperation (noun)
- disagreement (noun)
- disobedience (noun)
- disobedience, disregard (noun)
- imperviousness (noun)
- insolence (noun)
- insusceptibility (noun)
- nerviness (noun)
- opposition (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- overconfidence (noun)
- presumptuousness (noun)
- rebellion (noun)
- refusal (noun)
- resistance (noun)
- transgression (noun)
- unwillingness (noun)
- uppishness (noun)
- uppityness (noun)
- valor (noun)
- boasting (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Defiance:
n.
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- breach,
- nonobservance.
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- provocation.
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- resist.
- hardinesses,
- dis respectfulness,
- shamelessnesses,
- de fiance,
- cockinesses,
- de-fiance,
- dis-respectfulnesses,
- de-fiances,
- dis-respectfulness,
- disrespectfulnesses,
- de fiances,
- dis respectfulnesses.
- pro vocation,
- re monstrance,
- inter-rogations,
- inter rogations,
- inter rogation,
- inter-rogation,
- re-monstrance,
- summons contest,
- pro vocations,
- claimings,
- re-monstrances,
- pro-vocation,
- demandings,
- pro-vocations,
- re monstrances.
- gainsayings,
- in consistency,
- dis-agreements,
- dis agreements,
- dis agreement,
- dis-agreement,
- in-congruity,
- in-consistency,
- in congruities,
- buckings,
- in-consistencies,
- in congruity,
- confutations,
- in consistencies,
- in-congruities.
- contravention,
- attack,
- insolence,
- boldness,
- recalcitrance,
- dissent,
- dissension,
- affront,
- stubbornness,
- temerity,
- insubordination.
- complaint,
- disaccord,
- divisiveness,
- contention,
- rejection,
- disunity,
- argument,
- nonagreement,
- repudiation.
- effrontery,
- brazenness,
- Factiousness,
- sass,
- order,
- spite,
- gas,
- unruliness,
- command,
- cartel,
- lip,
- call,
- muster,
- contrariness,
- throwing of the gauntlet,
- Impugnment,
- stump,
- hot air,
- dare,
- intractableness,
- big talk,
- confrontation,
- guts,
- summons,
- defy,
- back talk,
- perversity,
- enjoinder.
- Contemptuousness,
- impertinence,
- discourtesy,
- callousness,
- irreverence,
- derisiveness,
- brashness,
- rudeness,
- arrogance,
- disesteem.
- in-civilities,
- dis-courtesy,
- in-civility,
- dis courtesy,
- dis courtesies,
- dis respects,
- in civilities,
- dis-courtesies,
- dis-respects,
- in civility,
- dis respect,
- dis-respect.
- repulsion,
- impediment,
- counterattack,
- counteraction,
- conflict,
- objection,
- repression,
- disagreement,
- suppression,
- antagonism,
- obstinacy,
- fight,
- friction,
- inhibition,
- protest,
- dispute,
- rebuff,
- obstruction,
- interference,
- adversary,
- resistance,
- hindrance.
- indomitableness,
- nerviness,
- breaking of the law,
- gall,
- uprising,
- polarity,
- contempt,
- shamelessness,
- impetuosity,
- presumptuousness,
- opposition,
- summons to contest,
- sauciness,
- cockiness,
- sassiness,
- contradiction,
- non-compliance,
- noncooperation,
- rebellion,
- non-cooperation,
- audacity,
- hardiness,
- Insurgence,
- invincibility,
- recklessness,
- risings,
- challenge,
- non-conformity,
- sands,
- sand,
- insurgency,
- pertness,
- impudence,
- transgression,
- overconfidence,
- pushiness,
- confutation,
- breaking the law,
- sedition,
- disobedience,
- disrespectfulness.
- dis-sents,
- dis sents,
- non-conformities,
- dis-sent,
- up risings,
- non conformity,
- non conformities,
- dis sent,
- up-rising,
- up-risings,
- up rising.
- NOS,
- renouncements,
- enjoinment,
- forbiddings,
- refutation,
- non-acceptance,
- nonconsent,
- withholdings,
- disavowals,
- renouncement,
- knockback,
- nonacceptance,
- disavowal,
- non-consent.
v.
• boasting (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- despite.
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- wrong.
- telephone call,
- snipe,
- edict,
- clapperclaw,
- take issue,
- presumption,
- disuse,
- sales booth,
- hold up,
- set on,
- interrogation,
- base,
- prescribe,
- malice,
- parliamentary law,
- dissident,
- agitate,
- lampoon,
- smoke,
- contend,
- scoff,
- emotional state,
- hesitation,
- ring,
- imprecate,
- saddle sore,
- injunction,
- liveliness,
- threaten,
- heedlessness,
- find,
- jumpiness,
- shout out,
- trouble,
- booking,
- see,
- come up,
- bitterness,
- overleap,
- panache,
- decree,
- countermove,
- consecrate,
- scare,
- scare off,
- be known as,
- clank,
- gasoline,
- disorderliness,
- abnegation,
- digest,
- jar,
- bluster,
- leave out,
- forwardness,
- anathemise,
- backwardness,
- locoweed,
- parry,
- arrange,
- patronage,
- electrical resistance,
- bump,
- exemplary,
- saturnalia,
- rescript,
- littoral zone,
- dividing line,
- interrogate,
- fall,
- perturb,
- accelerator,
- assumption,
- stomp,
- burlesque,
- awry,
- discord,
- defence,
- depreciator,
- meretriciousness,
- tone-beginning,
- coming upon,
- dah,
- smell,
- jitteriness,
- rostrum,
- anathemize,
- rise,
- purport,
- pervert,
- horror,
- assume,
- haywire,
- disparager,
- encroachment,
- antiaircraft gun,
- falsification,
- despair,
- inquiry,
- battle cry,
- dais,
- oath,
- torment,
- natural gas,
- disfavour,
- feeling,
- gun,
- plunder,
- sureness,
- mindlessness,
- back,
- difference of opinion,
- drive,
- pit,
- call into question,
- parliamentary procedure,
- foolhardiness,
- falling out,
- courageousness,
- controvert,
- come upon,
- require,
- churn up,
- jeopardise,
- ailment,
- rate,
- rape,
- contradict,
- resistor,
- self-direction,
- resolve,
- ravish,
- gross out,
- sign,
- hitch,
- heroism,
- life,
- assail,
- emerging,
- response,
- disproof,
- stake,
- trespass,
- altercate,
- interlocking,
- drunken revelry,
- despise,
- fearlessness,
- interview,
- mix up,
- doubtfulness,
- misdemeanor,
- bile,
- scratch,
- incitement,
- chafe,
- combat,
- misuse,
- imperil,
- damage,
- order of magnitude,
- head,
- chance on,
- crusade,
- onset,
- clangour,
- peril,
- expostulation,
- fire,
- face,
- quelling,
- enemy,
- rejoinder,
- deceleration,
- comeback,
- baulk,
- terror,
- slight,
- unmanageableness,
- callosity,
- high-handedness,
- cease and desist order,
- irk,
- sidesplitter,
- lodge,
- cut,
- contradiction in terms,
- range,
- say,
- frighten away,
- nervousness,
- carouse,
- skittishness,
- boast,
- sprint,
- address,
- impress,
- electric resistance,
- injure,
- disclaimer,
- gauge,
- rap,
- ordinate,
- dissonance,
- foe,
- fierceness,
- goldbrick,
- look,
- cry,
- badness,
- drop,
- anticipate,
- discount,
- gaseous state,
- endanger,
- sicken,
- word of advice,
- authority,
- offensive activity,
- mischief,
- amiss,
- rupture,
- ill-timed,
- control,
- rhetoric,
- monition,
- scourge,
- daunt,
- standstill,
- wonder,
- foresee,
- brook,
- impinge on,
- hate,
- yell,
- mutual exclusiveness,
- support,
- ack-ack,
- game,
- opposite,
- deterrence,
- intrusion,
- aggress,
- elan,
- brush,
- offend,
- empty talk,
- stall,
- happen,
- pulpit,
- obstructive,
- gasolene,
- purchase order,
- knocker,
- prognosticate,
- hesitancy,
- controversy,
- resister,
- loudness,
- move,
- employment,
- place upright,
- opposer,
- venturesome,
- play off,
- insult,
- gumption,
- bet on,
- bruise,
- tie-up,
- hyphen,
- negativeness,
- call off,
- heart,
- gas pedal,
- primitivism,
- fight off,
- revilement,
- denouncement,
- encumbrance,
- bullheadedness,
- ascent,
- grade,
- rumpus,
- enquiry,
- sess,
- summon,
- viewpoint,
- brush off,
- ruckus,
- smasher,
- birdcall,
- match,
- rancor,
- flash,
- incitation,
- obstructer,
- mischief-making,
- cocksureness,
- rank,
- unharmoniously,
- tout,
- carelessness,
- vehemence,
- flatulence,
- conscription,
- competitiveness,
- neglectfulness,
- blow,
- hindering,
- neutralisation,
- sassing,
- blockage,
- collide with,
- swear,
- bang,
- belly laugh,
- misdemeanour,
- blaspheme,
- onslaught,
- buffet,
- watchword,
- argumentation,
- self-assurance,
- profane,
- debunking,
- light upon,
- pot,
- underground,
- rubbing,
- enjoining,
- fight back,
- unfeelingness,
- receive,
- campaign,
- bacchanal,
- cark,
- freeze off,
- jinx,
- maliciousness,
- indisposition,
- defend,
- jib,
- stifling,
- bacchanalia,
- unhinge,
- variance,
- put up,
- valiance,
- happen upon,
- coin,
- howler,
- disembodied spirit,
- guild,
- come across,
- ignore,
- audacious,
- resolution,
- detrition,
- lag,
- eruption,
- counterpunch,
- littoral,
- intervention,
- troth,
- skirmish,
- holler,
- archness,
- fighting,
- evildoing,
- push aside,
- grit,
- run into,
- bedamn,
- date,
- pom-pom,
- parody,
- standpoint,
- lustiness,
- violence,
- blast,
- aggravation,
- brim,
- retardent,
- hold out,
- impinge,
- bumptiousness,
- scream,
- vaunt,
- backbone,
- negativity,
- chance,
- shine,
- damn,
- negligence,
- impedimenta,
- swash,
- birdsong,
- brag,
- uphill,
- presume,
- bidding,
- scoot,
- mistreat,
- debauchery,
- firmness of purpose,
- cheek,
- club,
- program line,
- nerve,
- green goddess,
- abandon,
- self-sufficiency,
- falsifying,
- repel,
- blackguard,
- tawdriness,
- abide,
- rancour,
- fiat,
- shoot,
- cheekiness,
- combine,
- faulty,
- orderliness,
- jeering,
- tumultuousness,
- hex,
- immunity,
- protestation,
- palaver,
- ill,
- primitiveness,
- know as,
- obstinance,
- obstacle,
- omit,
- aslant,
- flatulency,
- preventive,
- reject,
- beshrew,
- fiddle,
- valour,
- crust,
- valorousness,
- mint,
- admonition,
- take on,
- assault,
- direct contrast,
- ill-use,
- politesse,
- swearword,
- deterrent,
- ill will,
- frighten off,
- mutual opposition,
- take,
- except,
- ambo,
- make bold,
- flak catcher,
- betrothal,
- spoil,
- untimely,
- beat back,
- take exception,
- regulate,
- roister,
- prankishness,
- chance upon,
- brush aside,
- antagonist,
- demarcation,
- clang,
- meshing,
- enjoin,
- prohibition,
- predict,
- trust,
- nonviolence,
- usurpation,
- clangoring,
- vilification,
- rallying cry,
- chivalry,
- maledict,
- push,
- shoot a line,
- perkiness,
- fail,
- stomach,
- push back,
- devilry,
- mastery,
- outdoor stage,
- acclivitous,
- flavour,
- spirit up,
- resistivity,
- gasconade,
- aversion,
- dubiousness,
- shenanigan,
- scare away,
- bane,
- ordain,
- crudity,
- wound,
- step,
- podium,
- mesh,
- transgress,
- ravishment,
- revulsion,
- call option,
- irruption,
- work stoppage,
- execration,
- plan of attack,
- shout,
- uproar,
- pedestal,
- disagree,
- spitefulness,
- wilfulness,
- perverseness,
- wrongfulness,
- vociferation,
- pall,
- motion,
- certitude,
- meet,
- oppugn,
- fury,
- bolt,
- contestation,
- muster up,
- social club,
- insensibility,
- retort,
- replication,
- hollo,
- public violence,
- nemesis,
- pretermit,
- stand up,
- tap,
- soapbox,
- argufy,
- firmness,
- claim,
- nastiness,
- participation,
- differ,
- maltreatment,
- riposte,
- contumely,
- divergence,
- regularise,
- incumbrance,
- grumpiness,
- involution,
- line,
- strikingness,
- weed,
- disputation,
- ill-treat,
- debauch,
- roguery,
- self-confidence,
- regularize,
- fend,
- bellicoseness,
- disfavor,
- mouth,
- contravene,
- discrepancy,
- encroach,
- gap,
- rascality,
- attempt,
- telephone,
- commotion,
- instruction,
- remain firm,
- ten-strike,
- dictation,
- wrongly,
- slowing,
- oppositeness,
- incorrectly,
- cussedness,
- arguing,
- protester,
- avant-garde,
- forebode,
- charge,
- scorn,
- check,
- debate,
- ordering,
- gainsay,
- press,
- strickle,
- ferocity,
- send for,
- venturous,
- selective service,
- venom,
- tree stump,
- din,
- stamp,
- travesty,
- slowdown,
- come to,
- dart,
- sprightliness,
- obstructor,
- enmity,
- inconsistency,
- devilment,
- dictate,
- nonviolent resistance,
- rivalry,
- refuse,
- mental retardation,
- crotchetiness,
- parameter,
- retardant,
- break,
- outcry,
- stand firm,
- upset,
- crash,
- self-renunciation,
- monastic order,
- rules of order,
- antiaircraft,
- brass,
- society,
- play,
- punt,
- rack,
- song,
- turn down,
- excommunicate,
- audaciousness,
- phone,
- promise,
- obliquely,
- run across,
- tell,
- sandpaper,
- attain,
- throttle,
- offence,
- walk out,
- stick out,
- renunciation,
- cuss,
- crossways,
- pasquinade,
- spurn,
- unseasonable,
- crosswise,
- round,
- disrespect,
- demurrer,
- miss,
- condescension,
- disgust,
- bitchiness,
- foretell,
- contemn,
- heel counter,
- nauseate,
- outrage,
- nonperformance,
- noise,
- appointment,
- interrogative sentence,
- send-up,
- cite,
- visit,
- dominate,
- set up,
- rift,
- haughtiness,
- admonitory,
- dishonor,
- co,
- collide,
- sideboard,
- dishonour,
- counterpoint,
- expunge,
- backtalk,
- drive back,
- counterstrike,
- balk,
- spoof,
- legal injury,
- improper,
- takeoff,
- clangor,
- crankiness,
- bullying,
- withstand,
- wow,
- ruction,
- mischievousness,
- literary argument,
- jeopardize,
- subnormality,
- undiscipline,
- turmoil,
- query,
- point of view,
- ordination,
- crushing,
- counterbalance,
- cattiness,
- counterplay,
- swearing,
- squall,
- go against,
- mulishness,
- buoyancy,
- disturbance,
- rally,
- freshness,
- deviltry,
- curse word,
- ascension,
- holy order,
- dissenter,
- overlook,
- tabulator,
- dismiss,
- desecrate,
- involvement,
- interrogative,
- sens,
- whammy,
- put,
- hard knocks,
- lash out,
- ill-treatment,
- take up,
- infract,
- flack catcher,
- react,
- logical argument,
- feel,
- difference,
- hurt,
- return,
- showdown,
- defense,
- put-on,
- margin call,
- impenetrability,
- autonomy,
- competition,
- incorrect,
- condemnation,
- fight down,
- gild,
- assurance,
- smash,
- truculency,
- tone,
- valiancy,
- face-off,
- furiousness,
- glitz,
- hardness,
- dislike,
- maltreat,
- flair,
- name,
- fall upon,
- statement,
- forbiddance,
- excise,
- handicap,
- neutralization reaction,
- rioting,
- expletive,
- cautionary,
- battle,
- petrol,
- forestall,
- grass,
- flack,
- lordliness,
- contestant,
- crudeness,
- tolerate,
- corporate trust,
- sendup,
- inspirit,
- resentment,
- approach,
- shrink from,
- overtop,
- intent,
- doubt,
- standoff,
- rim,
- style,
- empty words,
- hold,
- incompatibility,
- hardship,
- impetuousness,
- determent,
- process,
- struggle,
- flashiness,
- self-will,
- foeman,
- offense,
- suffer,
- gaudiness,
- affect,
- place,
- chemical reaction,
- robustness,
- discover,
- scrap,
- severance,
- moxie,
- in someone's way,
- revenge,
- distract,
- preventative,
- endure,
- diss,
- bid,
- slowness,
- bandstand,
- run afoul,
- thigh-slapper,
- call in,
- irritation,
- onrush,
- accelerator pedal,
- bear,
- litoral,
- curtailment,
- pigheadedness,
- self-denial,
- disarray,
- pooh-pooh,
- orgy,
- skunk,
- garishness,
- phone call,
- ill-usage,
- jeer,
- self-abnegation,
- tilt,
- draft,
- line of reasoning,
- meeting,
- repulsive force,
- dauntlessness,
- snub,
- garboil,
- antagonistic,
- dope,
- quarrel,
- govern,
- call up,
- diatribe,
- force back,
- scud,
- disquiet,
- flavor,
- fret,
- demurral,
- scoffing,
- despoil,
- monitory,
- intransigency.
- in spite of,
- riot,
- bellicosity,
- confidence,
- declaration of war,
- insurrection,
- question,
- rebelling,
- curse,
- contrast,
- spirit,
- fidei defensor,
- demur,
- disapproval,
- combative reaction,
- hardihood,
- pugnacity,
- roguishness,
- flak,
- outbreak,
- repulse,
- unmanageability,
- Overthwart,
- bravery,
- uncooperativeness,
- run riot,
- Headstrongness,
- aggressiveness,
- combativeness,
- adversity,
- unfriendliness,
- obstreperousness,
- menace,
- infringe,
- war whoop,
- refractoriness,
- feistiness,
- shirk,
- infringement,
- intrepidity,
- aggression,
- daring,
- Incorrigibility,
- hurl defiance at,
- Emeute,
- naughtiness,
- willfulness,
- disdain,
- ungovernability,
- Withstanding,
- contentiousness,
- Minacity,
- denial,
- gathering clouds,
- antipathy,
- fulmination,
- restiveness,
- shrewishness,
- threat,
- Recalcitration,
- gage,
- belligerency,
- in spite,
- rising,
- negativism,
- disobey,
- dissentience,
- passive resistance,
- truculence,
- discordantly,
- athwart,
- commination,
- violation,
- antithesis,
- derring-do,
- in the way,
- in defiance of,
- Renitence,
- Repellence,
- frowardness,
- turndown,
- militancy,
- abuse,
- disregard,
- militance,
- remonstrance,
- DEFI,
- Defying,
- quarrelsomeness,
- break the law,
- intimidation,
- intractability,
- across,
- Insusceptibility,
- retaliation,
- desperation,
- wildness,
- reaction,
- denunciation,
- assaultiveness,
- set at naught,
- ultimatum,
- disputatiousness,
- warning,
- scrappiness,
- war cry,
- gallantry,
- self-reliance,
- invitation,
- Contumaciousness,
- strike,
- contrariety,
- indomitability,
- ride roughshod over,
- irrepressibility,
- hostility,
- refusal,
- resoluteness,
- stand,
- uncontrollability,
- orneriness,
- militantness,
- Indocility,
- unmalleability,
- tumult,
- dash,
- fractiousness,
- Renitency,
- rashness,
- violate,
- disorder,
- intransigence.
How to use "Defiance" in context?
Defiance is defined as the attitude or practice of defiance against authority or anything that is considered to be opposed to a person's wishes or beliefs. Defiance also refers to an act or instance of defiance.
Defiance can be seen as a form of rebellion, both against the status quo and against those who are considered to be in charge. It can be an expression of strength and autonomy, and can be a form of self-expression. It can also be seen as a way of coping with difficult or challenging situations.
Defiance can sometimes be motivated by a sense of duty or a sense of responsibility.
Paraphrases for Defiance:
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
resistance, challenges.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
breach, confrontation, contradiction, distrust, ignorance, neglect, negligence, stamina, violation.
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
contempt, contravention, denial, denigration, disdain, disobedience, disregard, disrespect, infringement, insolence, mistrust, provocation, scorn, spite, Flouting, non-compliance, non-confidence.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Defiance:
- defang, deafening, deviance, deep-pink, deepening, deepness, diapensiaceae, defeminise, debunk, defence, diving, diapensia, dubbing, defeminize, defining, diaphanous, Da Vinci, defense, dbms, daubing, deafness.
Hypernym for Defiance:
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insubordination, obstreperousness.
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Hyponym for Defiance:
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resistance.
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intractability, intractableness.
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communication
challenge.
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- Synonyms:
- Improvisatory.
