Synonyms for rebelliousness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ri-bel-yuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈbɛl yəs |
Top 10 synonyms for rebelliousness
- assertiveness
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- heedlessness
- hot air
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impudence
- impugnment
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- insolence
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- orneriness
- perverseness
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- recklessness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
Définition of rebelliousness
Origin :- early 15c., from Latin rebellis (see rebel (adj.)) + -ous. Related: Rebelliously; rebelliousness.
- As in contumacy : noun defiance
- As in indocility : noun unruliness
- As in intractability : noun unruliness
- As in intractableness : noun unruliness
- As in obstinateness : noun unruliness
- As in obstreperousness : noun unruliness
- As in recalcitrance : noun defiance
- As in recalcitrance : noun unruliness
- As in recalcitrancy : noun unruliness
- As in recalcitrancy : noun defiance
- As in refractoriness : noun unruliness
- As in uncontrollability : noun unruliness
- As in uncontrollableness : noun unruliness
- As in ungovernableness : noun unruliness
- As in unmanageability : noun unruliness
- As in untowardness : noun unruliness
- As in defiance : noun disobedience, disregard
- And submissive, where rebelliousness would not have been without excuse.
- Extract from : « Bunyan Characters - Third Series » by Alexander Whyte
- Britt's ugly stare was taking the spirit out of the landlord's rebelliousness.
- Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day
- For her rebelliousness and general contumacy she was condemned to be burned alive.
- Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins
- Notwithstanding my youth, my spirit has no fears of incurring a like rebelliousness.
- Extract from : « Pepita Ximenez » by Juan Valera
- Back of this rebelliousness lay a certain amount of British influence.
- Extract from : « The Old Northwest » by Frederic Austin Ogg
- We do not ask to forget our rebelliousness, but we ask to be assured that we are reconciled to Thee.
- Extract from : « The Whole Armour of God » by John Henry Jowett
- The rebelliousness of The Loom of Youth was in tune with the temper of the hour.
- Extract from : « The Loom of Youth » by Alec Waugh
- Then the old doubting rancor and rebelliousness took possession of the multitude.
- Extract from : « Joshua, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- The rebelliousness of Byron seems a rebelliousness not so much deliberate and intellectual as instinctive and impulsive.
- Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
- Her defiance, resentment, rebelliousness, vanished from a softly agitated face.
- Extract from : « The Man of the Forest » by Zane Grey
Antonyms for rebelliousness
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