| Main Entry: | defiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience, disregard |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
Antonyms: |
acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination |
| Concept: | Defiance. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
defiance; daring; dare; challenge, cartel; threat; war cry, war whoop.
-verbs
defy, dare, beard; brave (courage); bid defiance to; set at defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance; snap the fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey., show fight, show one's teeth, show a bold front; bluster, look big, stand akimbo; double the fist, shake the fist; threaten., challenge, call out; throw down the gauntlet, fling down the gauntlet, fling down the gage, fling down the glove, throw down the glove.
-adjectives
defiant; defying;"with arms akimbo".
-adverbs
in defiance of, in the teeth of; under one's very nose.
-phrases
noli me tangere; nemo me impune lacessit.
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| Main Entry: | audacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, presumptuousness |
Synonyms: |
assurance, audaciousness, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, cockiness, crust, defiance, disrespectfulness, effrontery, forwardness, gall, guts*, gutsiness, hardiness, impertinence, impudence, insolence, moxie, nerve, rudeness, shamelessness, spunk, stuff*, temerity |
Antonyms: |
gentility, humility, meekness, modesty, timidity, yielding |
| Main Entry: | challenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispute, question |
Synonyms: |
claiming, confrontation, dare, defiance, demanding, demur, interrogation, objection, protest, provocation, remonstrance, summons to contest, test, threat, trial, ultimatum |
Antonyms: |
agree, answer, decide, win |
| Main Entry: | contempt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disdain, disrespect |
Synonyms: |
antipathy, audacity, aversion, condescension, contumely, defiance, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, disesteem, disregard, distaste, hatred, indignity, malice, mockery, neglect, recalcitrance, repugnance, ridicule, scorn, slight, snobbery, stubbornness |
| Notes: | contempt is a more engaged, more involved feeling of disapproval than disdain |
Antonyms: |
admiration, affection, approbation, approval, endorsement, love, regard, respect, sanction |
| Main Entry: | contradiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | variance to something |
Synonyms: |
bucking, conflict, confutation, contravention, defiance, denial, difference, disagreement, discrepancy, dispute, dissension, gainsaying, incongruity, inconsistency, negation, opposite, opposition |
Antonyms: |
OK, acceptance, agreement, approval, concession, confirmation, corroboration, reconcilement, verification |
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rashness |
Synonyms: |
carelessness, defiance, foolhardiness, frenzy, heedlessness, impetuosity, madness, recklessness |
Antonyms: |
calm, cautiousness, collectedness, peace, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior; noncompliance with rules |
Synonyms: |
defiance, dereliction, disregard, indiscipline, infraction, infringement, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, intractableness, mutiny, neglect, nonobservance, perversity, rebellion, recalcitrance, refractoriness, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, unruliness, violation, waywardness |
Antonyms: |
behavior, obedience, observance, submission |
| Main Entry: | insubordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience |
Synonyms: |
defiance, dereliction, disregard, dissension, indiscipline, infringement, insurrection, mutiny, noncompliance, noncooperation, nonobservance, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage |
| Main Entry: | opposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, antagonism |
Synonyms: |
action, antinomy, antithesis, aversion, brush, civil disobedience, clash, combat, competition, con, conflict, confronting, contention, contest, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, counterattack, defense, defiance, disapproval, duel, encounter, engagement, fray, grapple, hostility, negativism, obstructiveness, opposure, oppugnancy, prevention, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, rivalry, skirmish, strife, struggle, unfriendliness, violation, war, warfare |
Antonyms: |
compatibility, harmony, peace |