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[syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insubordinate \In`sub*or"di*nate\, a.
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious;
mutinous.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insubordinate
adj 1: not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate
behavior"; "insubordinate boys" [ant: subordinate]
2: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
[syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "insubordinate":
agitator, brawler, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected,
disobedient, dissentious, extremist, factious, fractious, frondeur,
headstrong, heady, incompliant, indocile, insurgent,
insurrectional, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto,
intractable, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, malcontent,
maverick, mutineer, mutinous, nonconformist, noncooperating,
noncooperative, obstreperous, perverse, rampant, rebel, rebellious,
recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, revolter, revolutionary,
revolutionist, rioter, seditious, self-willed, subversive, traitor,
unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncompliant, uncomplying,
uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungovernable,
ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, wildcat,
willful