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REBELLIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discontented as toward authority
Synonyms:
disaffected; ill-affected; malcontent; rebellious
Classified under:
Similar:
discontent; discontented (showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing)
Derivation:
rebellion (organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another)
rebellion (refusal to accept some authority or code or convention)
rebelliousness (intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Participating in organized resistance to a constituted government
Example:
the rebelling confederacy
Classified under:
Similar:
disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)
Derivation:
rebellion (organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another)
rebelliousness (an insubordinate act)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Resisting control or authority
Example:
a rebellious crew
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
insubordinate (not submissive to authority)
Derivation:
rebellion (refusal to accept some authority or code or convention)
rebelliousness (an insubordinate act)
Context examples:
Working at his chambers in the Temple, with a busy aspect, and his hair (where he is not bald) made more rebellious than ever by the constant friction of his lawyer's-wig, I come, in a later time, upon my dear old Traddles.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
