What is another word for rebellious?
Pronunciation:
[ ɹɪbˈɛlɪəs], [ ɹɪbˈɛlɪəs], [ ɹ_ɪ_b_ˈɛ_l_ɪ__ə_s]
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Similar words for rebellious:
- all (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- defiant (adjective)
- disaffected (adjective)
- discordant (adjective)
- disobedient (adjective)
- disobedient, unmanageable (adjective)
- disorderly (adjective)
- factious (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- inflammatory (adjective)
- irrepressible (adjective)
- lawless (adjective)
- noncompliant (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- out of control (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- radical (adjective)
- recalcitrant (adjective)
- refractory (adjective)
- revolutionary (adjective)
- riotous (adjective)
- rowdy (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- disloyal
- facing
- refractory
Synonyms for Rebellious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • contrary (adjective)- head strong,
- anti-pathetic,
- most reverse,
- most dissentient,
- more dissentient,
- in-consistent,
- nonconformist,
- more anti,
- anti-thetical,
- in consistent,
- in-tractable,
- in subordinate,
- non conforming,
- headstrong,
- most wrongheaded,
- in tractable,
- non conformist,
- more paradoxical,
- anti thetical,
- re verse,
- anti pathetic,
- most opposed,
- dis-sentient,
- most contrariant,
- most anti,
- more contrariant,
- most clashing,
- in-subordinate,
- most recusant,
- Non-conforming,
- most paradoxical,
- more clashing,
- dis sentient,
- more recusant,
- more wrongheaded,
- re-verse,
- more reverse.
- challenging,
- conflicting,
- confrontational,
- bold,
- reckless,
- insolent,
- audacious,
- insubmissive,
- daring.
- dis-contented,
- un submissive,
- dis satisfied,
- more unsubmissive,
- dis-affected,
- un friendly,
- dis loyal,
- un friendliest,
- most discontented,
- un-friendly,
- un-friendliest,
- in different,
- dis-satisfied,
- un-submissive,
- un-friendlier,
- dis-loyal,
- un friendlier,
- dis contented,
- most unsubmissive,
- in-different,
- dis affected.
- treacherous,
- treasonous,
- undisciplined,
- mischievous,
- Disregardful,
- Disobeying,
- intractable,
- Misbehaving,
- wayward.
- dissident,
- iconoclastic,
- individualistic,
- bellicose,
- threatening,
- rioting,
- attacking,
- sabotaging,
- quarrelsome.
- more off-base,
- most out-of-line,
- more on-a-tear,
- most on a tear,
- in-temperate,
- tumultous-tumultuous,
- most out of line,
- most on-a-tear,
- offbase,
- dis obedient,
- tumultous tumultuous,
- most termagant,
- most out-of-order,
- most offbase,
- most off-base,
- un-manageable,
- more indisciplined,
- dis-obedient,
- more out-of-order,
- un governable,
- un manageable,
- most indisciplined,
- un-governable,
- more out-of-line,
- dis-orderly,
- most off base,
- on a tear,
- tumultoustumultuous,
- in temperate,
- off base,
- more out of line,
- more termagant,
- un-controllable,
- more on a tear,
- more out of order,
- dis orderly,
- more offbase,
- in disciplined,
- in-disciplined,
- un controllable,
- more off base,
- most out of order.
- more troublemaking,
- most troublemaking,
- most insurrectionary,
- most contending,
- more insurrectionary,
- more contending.
- unstoppable,
- Unrestrainable,
- Rhapsodical,
- Insuppressible,
- unquenchable,
- uncontainable,
- irrepressible.
- more anarchistic,
- un civilized,
- un-cultivated,
- most piratical,
- in-fringing,
- most anarchistic,
- most terrorizing,
- more piratical,
- more infringing,
- most anarchical,
- most infringing,
- dis-ordered,
- un peaceful,
- untamed,
- in fringing,
- un-civilized,
- more terrorizing,
- un-tamed,
- un-peaceful,
- more anarchical,
- more unpeaceful,
- un tamed,
- most unpeaceful,
- dis ordered,
- un cultivated.
- inflammatory,
- contumacious,
- uncompliant,
- lawless,
- nihilistic,
- self-willed,
- brassbound,
- paradoxical,
- anti,
- out-of-line,
- unpeaceful,
- contrary,
- freethinking,
- noncompliant,
- out of line,
- indocile,
- indisciplined,
- disaffected,
- cross-grained,
- out-of-order,
- rowdy,
- undisciplinable,
- disorderly,
- dissentient,
- riotous,
- rebel,
- Crossgrained,
- troublemaking,
- recalcitrant,
- non-conformist,
- singleminded,
- set in one's ways,
- out of control,
- head-strong,
- off-base,
- factious,
- Incompliant,
- unsubmissive,
- radical,
- termagant,
- mule,
- hardnosed,
- Ultraist,
- resistant,
- stiff-necked,
- anarchistic,
- leftist,
- anarchical,
- carried away,
- perverse,
- die hard,
- defiant,
- wrongheaded,
- unbendable,
- Contrariant,
- piratical,
- recusant,
- pugnacious,
- on-a-tear.
- hard nosed,
- de-generate,
- most selfwilled,
- un-healthiest,
- most self willed,
- un healthy,
- un reasonable,
- un healthier,
- un-healthy,
- more self-willed,
- selfwilled,
- more selfwilled,
- badtempered,
- most self-willed,
- de generate,
- un healthiest,
- un-reasonable,
- self willed,
- more self willed,
- bad tempered.
- ready to fight,
- itching to fight,
- hottempered,
- have a bone to pick,
- have bone to pick,
- self-assertive.
- most extremist,
- more ultraist,
- most ultraist,
- un compromising,
- most freethinking,
- more freethinking,
- more extremist,
- more leftist,
- most leftist,
- un-compromising,
- farout.
- un willing,
- with-standing,
- most undisciplinable,
- un disciplined,
- with standing,
- more undisciplinable,
- more withstanding,
- un-disciplinable,
- un-willing,
- un disciplinable,
- most withstanding,
- un-disciplined.
- most cussed,
- more stiff necked,
- in-exorable,
- set in ones ways,
- most stiff-necked,
- un bending,
- un-bending,
- more cussed,
- set one ways,
- most stiff necked,
- un-shakable,
- stiffnecked,
- set in ways,
- set ones ways,
- stiff necked,
- most stiffnecked,
- single minded,
- more stiff-necked,
- most hardheaded,
- set in one ways,
- set ways,
- set one's ways,
- more stiffnecked.
- more crossgrained,
- more cross-grained,
- un dependable,
- un-stable,
- self indulgent,
- un-dependable,
- un-predictable,
- un stabler,
- un-stabler,
- most cross-grained,
- un stable,
- most crossgrained,
- in-constant,
- selfindulgent,
- more cross grained,
- un stablest,
- un-stablest,
- un predictable,
- most cross grained,
- cross grained.
n.
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- resist.
- ill-affected,
- stubborn,
- reluctant,
- revolutionary,
- state of emergency,
- ungratified,
- dissatisfied,
- Counter-revolution,
- subversive,
- Griping,
- resistance,
- extreme,
- mutineer,
- Complaintful,
- unyielding,
- insurrectionary,
- Retardative,
- Renitent,
- protesting,
- sulky,
- uprising,
- ringleader,
- insurrection,
- cranky,
- troublemaker,
- querulous,
- angry young man,
- complaining,
- unfulfilled,
- difficult,
- insurgency,
- rabble-rouser,
- red flag,
- growling,
- disobedient,
- subversion,
- whiny,
- Malcontented,
- topple,
- riot,
- poacher,
- breakaway,
- treasonable,
- estranged,
- querulant,
- rise,
- out of humor,
- faultfinding,
- displeased,
- obstinate,
- rebellion,
- underground,
- unruly,
- the Troubles,
- disgruntled,
- beefing,
- petulant,
- resistive,
- crabby,
- secede,
- unsatisfied,
- bring,
- street,
- grumbling,
- discontented,
- revolt,
- rising,
- retardant,
- rebelling,
- muttering,
- incorrigible,
- coup,
- firebrand,
- grouchy,
- uneasy,
- Resisting,
- ungovernable,
- alienated,
- unaccommodating,
- insubordinate,
- Disputing,
- dissenting,
- Seditionary,
- Crabbing,
- Objecting,
- restless,
- discontent,
- suicide bomber,
- revolutional,
- freedom fighter,
- disputatious,
- revolution,
- dharna,
- proof against,
- anarchist,
- obstructive,
- Withstanding,
- seditious,
- mutineering,
- unhappy,
- bitching,
- disappointed,
- extremistic,
- insurgent,
- mutiny,
- malcontent,
- partisan,
- noncooperative,
- fractious,
- murmuring,
- terrorist,
- putsch,
- repellent,
- peevish,
- direct action,
- traitorous,
- restive,
- up in arms,
- croaking,
- the IRA,
- overthrow,
- on the barricades,
- palace coup,
- unaccepting,
- unmanageable,
- put,
- mutinous,
- resentful,
- refractory,
- grousing,
- uncooperative,
- guerrilla,
- turbulent,
- disloyal,
- jihadi,
- mujahideen,
- envious,
- bellyaching.
Other synonyms:
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- civil,
- antisocial,
- sit down,
- incendiary,
- militant.
How to use "Rebellious" in context?
Rebellious teenagers often rebel against their parents and society in order to express their individualism and creativity. Rebellious youths may engage in activities such as skipping school, smoking cigarettes, and skipping curfew in order to explore different aspects of their life and make their own decisions. While some rebellious youths may become criminal offenders, most develop into productive members of society. Rebellious youths often have a strong sense of self and do not conform to traditional values and expectations. They often explore their own boundaries and challenge authority. Rebellious teenagers often have a greater sense of empathy and are more sensitive to the feelings of others.
Paraphrases for Rebellious:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
mutinous.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
dissident, mutiny, rebelling, recalcitrant, restive, separatist, treason, rebel-held.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
insurgency, insurgent, insurrectional, rebel, rogue, rebels.
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Proper noun, singular
insurgent, rebel, rebels, insurgents.
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Adjective
Homophones for Rebellious:
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- daresay.