What is "rebellious" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does rebellious mean in English? Meaning of rebellious definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "rebellious" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "rebellious": resisting control or authority

Adjective

  • Meaning: resisting control or authority
  • Example: temperamentally rebellious a rebellious crew
  • Synonyms: rebellious
  • Similar: insubordinate
  • Meaning of "rebellious": discontented as toward authority

    Adjective

  • Meaning: discontented as toward authority
  • Synonyms: disaffected ill-affected malcontent rebellious
  • Similar: discontent discontented
  • Meaning of "rebellious": participating in organized resistance to a constituted government

    Adjective

  • Meaning: participating in organized resistance to a constituted government
  • Example: the rebelling confederacy
  • Synonyms: rebellious
  • Similar: disloyal
  • Adjective: Showing rebellion.
  • Synonyms:

    alienated, restless, turbulent, disaffected, fractious, recalcitrant, warring, unruly, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, refractory, resistant, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, threatening, ungovernable, individualistic, insurrectionary, treasonable, anarchistic, attacking, rioting, sabotaging,

    Antonyms:

    obedient, compliant, governable, manageable, happy,

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    rebellious in English: rebellious
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