rebellious 
re·bel·lious (ri bel′yəs)
adjective
- resisting authority; engaged in rebellion
- of or like rebels or rebellion
- opposing any kind of control; defiant
- difficult to treat or handle a rebellious cowlick
Etymology: ME rebellous
rebellious
modif.
Engaged in armed rebellion
revolutionary, insurgent, counterrevolutionary, warring, insurrectionary, attacking, rioting, mutinous, rebel; see also sense 2, 3.Antonyms
beaten*, overwhelmed, loyal. Inclined toward rebellion
dissident, factious, seditious, fractious, disobedient, treasonable, refractory, defiant, resistant, restless, restive, riotous, insubordinate, quarrelsome, bellicose, sabotaging, subversive, disloyal, disaffected, alienated, ungovernable, unruly, threatening. Antonyms
docile*, peaceful, acquiescent. Apt to oppose authority
anarchistic, iconoclastic, individualistic, radical, pugnacious, quarrelsome, independent-minded, stubborn, contemptuous, insolent, contumacious, alienated, scornful, uncontrollable, intractable, unyielding, recalcitrant, disobedient, feisty*; see also lawless 2.Antonyms
dutiful, tractable, yielding*.
Modifying Another Word
- so: If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!
- very: Very rebellious spirit looking for adventure pretty much describe your life.
- not: But they were more swayed by the party whips and not rebellious enough to throw out the bill.
- increasingly: But there is no soul in Aramanth and Kestrel and her twin brother are becoming increasingly rebellious.
- predominantly: That meat requires with excessive sugar predominantly rebellious anti-heroes is the overall.
- naturally: Kusturica has a loud and inflammatory public persona which, one thinks, is partly a consequence of a naturally rebellious streak.
Modifies a noun
- streak: Q: Do you think you still have a rebellious streak in you?
- baron: He was one of many rebellious barons excommunicated by Thomas a Becket.
- Kurd: Rebellious Kurds had liberated the complex, which, at street level, was a bland office block.
- teenager: You are no longer able to be the rebellious teenager.
- Scot: The reason I mention it is that apparently it refers to the squashing of the rebellious Scots... .
- teen: The trio is made up of a muscle head, a brainy college kid and a rebellious teen.
Used with adjective complement
- become: They too released the animals once they became rebellious, adding to the menace.
- feel: The old at Wyvern, The new said, hes feel rebellious was deserted.
- remain: Christianity says that while men and women remain rebellious against God, the misery will increase and things will become terrible.
- get: Raymond also gets increasingly rebellious under Desmond's bossiness, especially when he learns that actors at this other National Theater actually get paid.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the L God might dwell among them.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name J, and rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: buttherebellious dwell ina dry land.
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when everyact of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; theyare revolted and gone.
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