Meaning of INSUBORDINATE
Pronunciation: | | `insu'bordnit
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- [adj] disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
- [adj] not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
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| Synonyms: | | contumacious, defiant, disobedient, mutinous, noncompliant, rebellious, resistant, resistive, unruly |
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| Antonyms: | | subordinate | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In`sub*or"di*nate\, a.
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious;
mutinous.
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| Related Terms: | | agitator, brawler, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, dissentious, extremist, factious, fractious, frondeur, headstrong, heady, incompliant, indocile, insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intractable, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, malcontent, maverick, mutineer, mutinous, nonconformist, noncooperating, noncooperative, obstreperous, perverse, rampant, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, seditious, self-willed, subversive, traitor, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncompliant, uncomplying, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungovernable, ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, wildcat, willful |
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