Synonyms and Antonyms of compliance
1
a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others
- a strong-willed pop star who is not known for her compliance
amenability, amiability, complaisance, good-naturedness
obsequiousness, servility, slavishness, subservience, subserviency
conformity
cooperativeness, receptiveness, receptivity
humoring, indulgence
acceptance, assent, consent
capitulation, submission, surrender
affability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability
2
a bending to the authority or control of another
- an administrator who demands prompt and unquestioning compliance from subordinates
abidance, agreeability, amenability, teachableness, tractability, tractableness, trainability
acquiescence, capitulation, obeisance, obsequiousness, submissiveness, surrender, yielding
deference, docility, dutifulness, humility, meekness, modesty, servility, slavishness, subordinateness, subservience, subserviency
inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression
control, discipline, dutifulness, order
noncooperation, recusancy
disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness
insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, revolt
hardheadedness, mulishness, mutinousness, obstinacy, obstinateness, perversity, pigheadedness, stubbornness
misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness
dissent, dissidence
balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness
3
the following of a custom, rule, or law
- compliance with the statute was far from universal
deference, honor, regard, respect, upholding
accession, acquiescence, submission, surrender
attendance, attention, heed, notice
brush-off, disregard, ignoring
delinquency, dereliction, forgetting, neglect, overlooking
offense (or offence), sin, wrong
challenge, defiance, flouting, rebellion
