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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective insubordinate has 2 senses

• insubordinate(a = adj.all) Array - not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
Antonym: subordinate

• insubordinate(s = adj.all) resistant, resistive - disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority; Array

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THESAURUS

insubordinate

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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insubordinate

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

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