1.
2.
[syn: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious]
3. participating in organized resistance to a constituted government;
- Example: "the rebelling confederacy"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rebellious \Re*bel"lious\ (r[-e]*b[e^]l"y[u^]s), a.
Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of
rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful
authority by force. "Thy rebellious crew." "Proud rebellious
arms." --Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly, adv. --
Re*bel"lious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rebellious
adj 1: resisting control or authority; "temperamentally
rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"
2: discontented as toward authority [syn: disaffected, ill-
affected, malcontent, rebellious]
3: participating in organized resistance to a constituted
government; "the rebelling confederacy"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "rebellious":
alienated, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, breakaway, complaining,
complaintful, contumacious, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking,
defiant, difficult, disaffected, disappointed, discontented,
disgruntled, disobedient, displeased, disputatious, disputing,
dissatisfied, dissentient, dissenting, envious, estranged, extreme,
extremistic, factious, faultfinding, fractious, griping, grouchy,
grousing, growling, grumbling, incorrigible, insubordinate,
insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring,
mutineering, mutinous, muttering, noncooperative, objecting,
obstinate, obstructive, on the barricades, out of humor, peevish,
petulant, proof against, protesting, querulant, querulous, rebel,
recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent,
resentful, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, restless,
retardant, retardative, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous,
seditionary, seditious, stubborn, subversive, sulky, traitorous,
treasonable, turbulent, unaccepting, unaccommodating,
uncooperative, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungovernable, ungratified,
unhappy, unmanageable, unruly, unsatisfied, unsubmissive,
unyielding, up in arms, whiny, withstanding