insubordinate
Other forms: insubordinately
If you want to be insubordinate, go ahead and break the rules, ignore orders, and act like a disobedient rebel.
Words that have similar meanings to insubordinate include "rebellious" and "mutinous." But while insubordinate people don't follow orders, rebellious folks openly defy them and mutinous groups try to overthrow the authority that created them. When baseball player Jackie Robinson objected to racial discrimination in the Army in the 1940s, he was accused of being insubordinate. He was court martialed, but found innocent and acquitted.
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not submissive to authority“a history of insubordinate behavior”“insubordinate boys”
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Synonyms:
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defiant, noncompliant
boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
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contumacious
wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
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disobedient, unruly
unwilling to submit to authority
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mutinous
disposed to or in a state of mutiny
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rebellious
resisting control or authority
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Antonyms:
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subordinate
subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
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submissive
inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
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low-level, subordinate
lower in rank or importance
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feudatory
owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign
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ruled
subject to a ruling authority
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dependent, subject
being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
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subservient
compliant and obedient to authority
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defiant, noncompliant
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disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
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defiant, noncompliant
boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
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defiant, noncompliant
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