Synonyms and Antonyms of rebellious
1
taking part in a rebellion
- the rebellious troops fought a pitched battle with divisions still loyal to the government
seditious, traitorous, treacherous, treasonous
agitating, demagogic, rabble-rousing
defiant, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly
2
given to resisting authority or another's control
- expected her son to grow a little more rebellious as he got older, but she knew he understood when to kick and when to obey
balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
noncooperative, uncooperative
insurgent, mutinous
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
perverse, resistant, wrongheaded
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty
undisciplined
dissident, nonconformist
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly
acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging
yielding
behaved, disciplined, well-bred
courteous, polite, respectful
kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient
decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper
controllable, governable, manageable, trainable
