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disobedience - 12 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior; noncompliance with rules |
| Synonyms: | defiance, dereliction, disregard, infraction, infringement, insubordination, mutiny, neglect, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, violation, indiscipline, insubmission, insurgence, intractableness, nonobservance, perversity, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness, waywardness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, obedience, observance, submission |
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| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
contumacious, disobedient, factious, froward, impatient of control, insubordinate, insurgent, iscariotic, lawless, mutinous, proditorious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, resisting, restiff, restive, riotous, seditious, sequacious, unbidden, uncompliant, uncomplying, ungovernable, unobeyed, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward
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| Main Entry: | monkey business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shenanigans |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, disobedience, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, horseplay, inanity, insanity, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock*, prank, silliness, stupidity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, foolery, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, mischief-making, tommyrot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mutiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance, resistance |
| Synonyms: | disobedience, insubordination, insurrection, revolt, revolution, riot, rising, strike, uprising, refusal to obey |
| Antonyms: | obedience, subservience |
| Main Entry: | nonconformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, behavior different from most |
| Synonyms: | breach, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapproval, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, insubordination, lawlessness, negation, noncompliance, objection, opposition, originality, rejection, strangeness, veto, violation, bohemianism, contumaciousness, disapprobation, discordance, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, mutinousness, nonacceptance, nonagreement, nonconsent, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness |
| Antonyms: | compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | rebellion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience; revolt |
| Synonyms: | defiance, disobedience, dissent, heresy, insubordination, insurrection, nonconformity, revolution, rising, schism, uprising, apostasy, insurgence, insurgency |
| Notes: | rebellion is open resistance to a government or authority; revolution is a rebellion that succeeds in overthrowing the government and establishing a new one |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | sedition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rebellion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, defiance, disobedience, dissent, insubordination, insurrection, mutiny, revolt, revolution, treason, uprising, insurgence, insurgency |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, fault, guilt, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccadillo, pride, shortcoming, sloth, transgression, trespass, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evil-doing, gluttony, immorality, peccability, peccancy, sinfulness, tort, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | transgression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, misbehavior |
| Synonyms: | breach, crime, defiance, disobedience, encroachment, erring, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, sin, slip, trespass, vice, wrong, wrongdoing, breaking of the law, contravention, overstepping |
| Antonyms: | behavior, good manners, obedience, right |
| Main Entry: | original sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innate corruption |
| Synonyms: | disobedience, fall from grace, mortal sin, wickedness, carnal sin, eating the apple, fall of man, inborn tendency, sin of Adam, sinfulness |
| Main Entry: | noncompliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformity |
| Synonyms: | disagreement, disobedience, dissent, objection, protest, refusal |
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation of a law |
| Synonyms: | delinquency, dereliction, disobedience, disregard, infraction, infringement, neglect, noncompliance, offense, transgression, trespass, violation, barratry, contravention, nonobservance |
| Antonyms: | upholding |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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