Definition for Rebel:

• To resist, and take up arms against, the law or government; revolt; rise against any authority.

Synonyms for Rebel:

• adj.

  •not obeying (adjective)
  • mutinous,
  • rebellious,
  • insubordinate,
  • revolutionary,
  • insurgent,
  • insurrectionary.

• n.

  •
  • campaigner,
  • agitator,
  • activist,
  • deserter,
  • dissident,
  • demagogue,
  • separatist,
  • schismatic,
  • apostate,
  • subversive,
  • demonstrator,
  • malcontent,
  • sectarian,
  • anarchist,
  • dissenter,
  • turncoat,
  • revolutionist,
  • insurrectionary,
  • nihilist,
  • rioter,
  • counterrevolutionary,
  • radical,
  • mutineer,
  • traitor,
  • revolutionary.
  •
  • defect,
  • destabilize,
  • demonstrate,
  • iconoclast,
  • blacklist,
  • boycott,
  • dislodge,
  • nonconformist,
  • foment,
  • chase,
  • individualist,
  • independent,
  • agitate.
  •
  • militant,
  • anarchic,
  • mutinous,
  • civil,
  • seditious.
  •
  • object,
  • go against,
  • oppose,
  • reject.
  •agitator (noun)
  • firebrand,
  • ringleader,
  • reformer.
  •anarchist (noun)
  • insurgent,
  • Revolter.
  •demonstrator (noun)
  • protester.
  •detractor (noun)
  • iconoclast.
  •enemy (noun)
  • seditionist.
  •firebrand (noun)
  • revolutionist.
  •person who does not obey (noun)
  • innovator,
  • agitator,
  • nihilist,
  • deserter,
  • experimenter,
  • resistance,
  • overthrower,
  • schismatic,
  • opponent,
  • malcontent,
  • experientialist,
  • mutineer,
  • disectarian,
  • demagogue,
  • turncoat,
  • recreant,
  • guerrilla,
  • independent,
  • traitor,
  • renegade,
  • subverter,
  • separatist,
  • Revolter,
  • dissenter,
  • Frondeur,
  • rioter,
  • seditionist,
  • revolutionist,
  • individualist,
  • anarchist,
  • heretic,
  • apostate,
  • antagonist,
  • iconoclast,
  • nonconformist,
  • secessionist.
  •rebel (noun)
  • maverick,
  • reb,
  • grayback,
  • rise,
  • disloyal,
  • southern,
  • Johnny,
  • rebelling,
  • renegade,
  • insurgent,
  • rise up,
  • freedom fighter,
  • insurrectionist,
  • arise,
  • rebellious,
  • Johnny Reb.
  •separatist (noun)
  • separatist.

• v.

  •defy (verb)
  • counter,
  • countermand,
  • counteract,
  • defy,
  • challenge,
  • confront,
  • cross,
  • resist,
  • dare,
  • contravene,
  • face,
  • dissent,
  • affront.
  •disobey (verb)
  • mutiny,
  • disobey,
  • subvert,
  • disregard,
  • trespass.
  •refuse to obey (verb)
  • oppose,
  • strike,
  • mutiny,
  • be insubordinate,
  • disobey,
  • resist,
  • rise up,
  • dissent,
  • revolt,
  • fight,
  • drop out,
  • upset,
  • overthrow,
  • overturn,
  • secede,
  • defy,
  • get out of line,
  • make waves,
  • take up arms,
  • denounce,
  • come out against,
  • rock the boat,
  • renounce,
  • criticize,
  • break with,
  • censure,
  • turn against,
  • boycott,
  • opt out,
  • run amok,
  • riot,
  • insurrect,
  • combat,
  • remonstrate.
  •revolt (verb)
  • revolt,
  • upset,
  • overthrow,
  • turn against,
  • overturn,
  • restructure.
  •social (verb)
  • arise,
  • rise up,
  • rise.

• Other synonyms:

  •Reb
  • reb.
  •
  • enemy,
  • anarchic,
  • mutinous,
  • seditious.
  •
  • go against,
  • revolutionary,
  • subversive,
  • insurrectionary,
  • oppose,
  • revolutionist,
  • civil,
  • iconoclast,
  • belong,
  • militant.
  •
  • object,
  • radical.
  •
  • reject.
  •
  • tackle.
  •agitator
  • demagogue.
  •betrayer
  • traitor.
  •demonstrator
  • protester.
  •disobey
  • insurrect,
  • infringe,
  • go counter to,
  • overstep,
  • rise in arms.
  •dissenter
  • dissident.
  •dissident
  • dissenter.
  •instigator
  • agitator.
  •insurgent
  • anarchist,
  • insurgent.
  •misbehave
  • act up.
  •offender
  • transgressor.
  •rebel
  • mutineer,
  • rioter.
  •sin
  • transgress.
  •skeptic
  • nihilist.
  •subversive
  • terrorist.
  •Other relevant words:
  • grumbler,
  • infringe,
  • kicker,
  • traitorous,
  • able,
  • wax,
  • come up,
  • adverse,
  • growler,
  • obstinate,
  • dispute,
  • extreme,
  • criticize,
  • lift,
  • bolshie,
  • learn by heart,
  • loner,
  • breakaway,
  • treasonable,
  • capable,
  • riot,
  • augment,
  • civil,
  • tie,
  • offensive,
  • individualist,
  • insubordinate,
  • anarcho-syndicalist,
  • disgust,
  • bandit,
  • red republican,
  • intractable,
  • experimenter,
  • blacklist,
  • subverter,
  • break with,
  • combat,
  • insurrect,
  • Sorehead,
  • ignore,
  • back,
  • nihilist,
  • communist,
  • insurrectionist,
  • mount,
  • attacker,
  • repel,
  • defect,
  • protest,
  • seditionist,
  • rise up,
  • riotous,
  • apostate,
  • reformer,
  • contumacious,
  • rebellion,
  • bellyacher,
  • recusant,
  • demagogue,
  • protester,
  • knot,
  • untoward,
  • incendiary,
  • quisling,
  • revolting,
  • enlarge,
  • intelligent,
  • anti,
  • defiant,
  • straighten,
  • insurgency,
  • clever,
  • foul,
  • amplify,
  • anarchic,
  • nonconforming,
  • heighten,
  • get out of line,
  • protestor,
  • brawler,
  • nauseatingly,
  • subversive,
  • go against,
  • spring up,
  • southern,
  • boycott,
  • unfavorable,
  • terrorist,
  • disobedient,
  • rear,
  • turncoat,
  • experientialist,
  • reactionist,
  • Sectary,
  • oppose,
  • counterrevolutionary,
  • willful,
  • secessionist,
  • violate,
  • puritan,
  • demonstrate,
  • antagonist,
  • mutinous,
  • turn against,
  • innovator,
  • break,
  • create,
  • rioter,
  • fight,
  • drop out,
  • insurrection,
  • rearwards,
  • insurgent,
  • begin,
  • proceed,
  • Anarch,
  • retire,
  • mutineer,
  • belong,
  • antinomian,
  • disagree,
  • disectarian,
  • occur,
  • crank,
  • burglar,
  • distastefully,
  • climb up,
  • walk out,
  • ringleader,
  • renounce,
  • go up,
  • move upward,
  • Reluctate,
  • beforehand,
  • resistance,
  • dissident,
  • resistant,
  • campaigner,
  • nasty,
  • rise in arms,
  • happen,
  • heretic,
  • bow,
  • revoltingly,
  • onwards,
  • red,
  • turn,
  • renegade,
  • independent,
  • obstreperous,
  • Revolter,
  • restive,
  • nonconformist,
  • come,
  • deserter,
  • reb,
  • originate,
  • dissenting,
  • Defier,
  • foment,
  • Murmurer,
  • wayward,
  • Revolutioner,
  • whiner,
  • revolution,
  • assailant,
  • enhance,
  • badass,
  • guerrilla,
  • activist,
  • backwards,
  • opt out,
  • Reluct,
  • surface,
  • Runagate,
  • mutterer,
  • take up arms,
  • Frondeur,
  • refractory,
  • perverse,
  • disloyal,
  • recreant,
  • Bonnet rouge,
  • rock the boat,
  • grow,
  • secede,
  • Seceder,
  • dislodge,
  • overstep,
  • extremist,
  • Revolute,
  • faultfinder,
  • revolutionary,
  • arise,
  • agitator,
  • go counter to,
  • croaker,
  • move up,
  • sickeningly,
  • rampage,
  • Incompliant,
  • unorthodox,
  • brawl,
  • disgustingly,
  • syndicalist,
  • revolutionist,
  • destabilize,
  • opponent,
  • reactionary,
  • run amok,
  • insurrectionary,
  • crab,
  • detestable,
  • Seditionary,
  • develop,
  • react against,
  • repulsively,
  • Against,
  • firebrand,
  • guerilla,
  • ahead,
  • resister,
  • debunker,
  • irregular,
  • make waves,
  • separatist,
  • kick,
  • grayback,
  • sectarian,
  • freedom fighter,
  • denounce,
  • reject,
  • resurrect,
  • militant,
  • adroit,
  • acute,
  • run riot,
  • iconoclast,
  • yankee,
  • ascend,
  • dissenter,
  • anomaly,
  • rise,
  • befall,
  • adversary,
  • froward,
  • opposition,
  • chase,
  • schismatic,
  • nonconformer,
  • loathsome,
  • rising,
  • bob up,
  • kvetch,
  • remonstrate,
  • unruly,
  • resistance fighter,
  • revolutionize,
  • grouch,
  • champ the bit,
  • factious,
  • uprising,
  • recalcitrant,
  • agitate,
  • dissatisfied,
  • object,
  • balky,
  • kick over the traces,
  • Johnny,
  • fall,
  • Carbonaro,
  • Johnny Reb,
  • strike,
  • complainer,
  • stubborn,
  • rebellious,
  • flout,
  • stormy petrel,
  • Sans-culotte,
  • anarchist,
  • Ultraist,
  • Grouser,
  • prove,
  • vilely,
  • contrary,
  • overthrower,
  • transgress,
  • apt,
  • disorderly,
  • turbulent,
  • maverick,
  • jump,
  • storeys,
  • previously,
  • seditious,
  • storm,
  • act up,
  • insurge,
  • athwart,
  • greyback,
  • rebelling,
  • exception,
  • rise against,
  • censure,
  • ungovernable,
  • transgressor,
  • climb,
  • malcontent,
  • come out against,
  • traitor,
  • radical,
  • in advance,
  • tackle,
  • demonstrator,
  • be insubordinate,
  • uprise,
  • complainant,
  • Griper,
  • enemy.

Antonyms for Rebel:

• adj.

  • not obeying
    complaisant, obedient, compliant.
  • Other antonyms:
    acquiescent, proper, subservient, orderly, slavish, kowtowing, polite, obsequious, respectful, controllable, mannerly, agreeable, yielding, well-bred, manageable, servile, amiable, Trainable, deferential, governable, disciplined, cooperative, courteous, decorous, ruly, obliging.

• n.

  • person who does not obey
    adherent, loyalist.

• v.

  • refuse to obey
    give in, endorse, support, lose, laud, praise, obey, agree, approve, compliment, sanction, make peace, comply, yield, surrender.

Homophones for Rebel:

• reply, rabble, reveille, ravel, refill, rifle, Ruhr Valley, roble, revile, revalue, ruefully, reveal, ruffle, rappel, rubeola, revival, refuel, repel, rubella, riffle, rubble, rouble, rueful, ravioli, ruble, rival, rubel, ripple, replay, raffle, repayable, raphael, rape oil, repeal, revel, robolo.