Synonyms and Antonyms of defiance
- any defiance of the authoritarian regime would have dire consequences
civil disobedience, noncooperation
discourteousness, disrespect, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, insolence, rudeness, ungraciousness
doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, peevishness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacity
- the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort
- a deeply troubled person who seemed the very soul of defiance
antagonism, fierceness, hostility, hyperaggressiveness, unfriendliness
imperialism, jingoism, militarism
acidity, biliousness, captiousness, crankiness, crossness, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grouchiness, grumpiness, huffiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, irritableness, orneriness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, querulousness, rudeness, surliness, testiness, waspishness