Thesaurus / rebellious
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synonyms for rebellious
- alienated
- disaffected
- fractious
- recalcitrant
- restless
- turbulent
- unruly
- warring
- anarchistic
- attacking
- bellicose
- contumacious
- defiant
- difficult
- disloyal
- disobedient
- disorderly
- dissident
- factious
- iconoclastic
- incorrigible
- individualistic
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- intractable
- mutinous
- obstinate
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- radical
- rebel
- refractory
- resistant
- revolutionary
- rioting
- riotous
- sabotaging
- seditious
- threatening
- treasonable
- ungovernable
See also synonyms for: rebelliously / rebelliousness
antonyms for rebellious
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Duda says Kaestel was someone with a rebellious streak, bereft of support or guidance from any family.
HE ROBBED A TACO JOINT WITH A TOY WATER GUN FOR $264. HE GOT LIFE IN PRISON.KATE BRIQUELETMAY 31, 2021THE DAILY BEASTThis opera star and famously rebellious romancer seduced numerous women and lived about as outlandishly as you could in the 17th century.
BEST OF OZY: BADASS WOMEN OF HISTORYSEAN CULLIGANMAY 28, 2021OZYTheir first single, “No More Dream,” was an ode to teen apathy, a rebellious rejection of Korean traditionalism.
BTS, THE BAND THAT CHANGED K-POP, EXPLAINEDAJA ROMANOMAY 21, 2021VOX“I am proud to have been part of a rebellious band of Tribune reporters who rallied our communities and local investors behind our conviction that our cities need a strong press,” she said.
TRIBUNE SHAREHOLDERS VOTE TO SELL LEGENDARY CHAIN OF NEWSPAPERS TO A HEDGE FUNDELAHE IZADI, SARAH ELLISONMAY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background.
HERE'S WHY CHLOÉ ZHAO'S OSCARS WIN WAS CENSORED IN CHINASUYIN HAYNESAPRIL 27, 2021TIMEThis gives the words and work of Wojnarowicz a timely immediacy, and underscores the need to keep his ferocious, rebellious spirit alive.
‘WOJNAROWICZ’ BURNS WITH A QUEER ICON’S BRILLIANT FURYJOHN PAUL KINGMARCH 24, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEGill, 34, has become the face of the rebellious social media uprising against powerful Wall Street elites.
CONGRESS PRESSES ROBINHOOD CEO ON COMPANY’S ROLE IN GAMESTOP STOCK FRENZYTORY NEWMYER, DOUGLAS MACMILLAN, HAMZA SHABANFEBRUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThat rebellious, painful urge to eat something I wasn’t “supposed to” in response to food restrictions was familiar.
SIX MONTHS OF SOFT FOOD SET ME FREEMEGHAN MCCARRONFEBRUARY 2, 2021EATERMan's enthusiasm in praise of a fellow mortal, is soon damped by the original sin of his nature—rebellious pride!
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThat thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO REBELLIOUS
- adverse
- anti
- antipathetic
- antipodal
- antipodean
- antithetical
- balky
- clashing
- conflicting
- contradictory
- contrariant
- contumacious
- converse
- counter
- diametric
- discordant
- dissentient
- dissident
- froward
- headstrong
- hostile
- inconsistent
- inimical
- insubordinate
- intractable
- negative
- nonconforming
- nonconformist
- obstinate
- opposed
- ornery
- paradoxical
- perverse
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- recusant
- refractory
- restive
- reverse
- stubborn
- unruly
- wayward
- wrongheaded
- alienated
- belligerent
- contending
- contentious
- contumacious
- disaffected
- disputatious
- dissident
- divisive
- estranged
- fighting
- hostile
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- litigious
- malcontent
- mutinous
- partisan
- quarrelsome
- rebellious
- refractory
- rival
- sectarian
- seditious
- troublemaking
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
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