| Main Entry: | recalcitrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, despite, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrancy, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
| Notes: | reluctance is a feeling that is experienced; recalcitrance is an attitude that is shown |
| Main Entry: | recalcitrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
Synonyms: |
assertiveness, disorderliness, fractiousness, heedlessness, impetuousness, imprudence, impulsiveness, indocility, intemperanc, intractability, intractableness, lawlessness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, orneriness, perverseness, rebelliousness, recalcitrancy, recklessness, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, waywardness, wildness, willfulness |
| 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: | 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 |
| 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: | nonconformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, behavior different from most |
Synonyms: |
bohemianism, breach, contumaciousness, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, mutinousness, negation, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconsent, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation |
Antonyms: |
compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | contumacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance |
Synonyms: |
contempt, disobedience, insubordination, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
| Main Entry: | disorderliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
Synonyms: |
fractiousness, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, roughness, rowdiness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unmanageableness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | fractiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
Synonyms: |
disorderliness, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, roughness, rowdiness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unmanageableness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | indocility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |