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Rebellious definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REBEL'LIOUS, a. Engaged in rebellion; renouncing the authority and dominion of the government to which allegiance is due; traitorously resisting government or lawful authority. Deutoronomy 9. Deutoronomy 21.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. given to or engaged in rebellion <rebellious troops> b. of, relating to, or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion <a rebellious speech> 2. resisting treatment or management ; refractory • rebelliously adverb • rebelliousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 tending to rebel, insubordinate. 2 in rebellion. 3 defying lawful authority. 4 (of a thing) unmanageable, refractory. Derivatives: rebelliously adv. rebelliousness n. Etymology: ME f. REBELLION + -OUS or f. earlier rebellous + -IOUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rebellious Re*bel"lious, 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you think someone behaves in an unacceptable way and does not do what they are told, you can say they are rebellious. ...a rebellious teenager... ADJ • rebelliousness ...the normal rebelliousness of youth. 2. A rebellious group of people is a group involved in taking violent action against the rulers of their own country, usually in order to change the system of government there. The rebellious officers, having seized the radio station, broadcast the news of the overthrow of the monarchy. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Insubordinate, intractable, disobedient, mutinous, refractory, contumacious, seditious.

Moby Thesaurus

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