Rebellious

Word REBELLIOUS
Character 10
Hyphenation re bel lious
Pronunciations /ɹəˈbɛliəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Rebellious"

What do we mean by rebellious?

Prone to or participating in a rebellion: synonym: insubordinate. adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion. adjective

Characterized by or expressing resistance to or defiance of authority or convention. adjective

Resistant to treatment or adjustment. adjective

Specifically, in metallurgy, difficult to reduce; requiring extra manipulation or extreme heat: said of ores from which it is difficult to separate the metal.

Acting as a rebel, or having the disposition of one; defying lawful authority; openly disobedient or insubordinate.

Pertaining to or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion; of rebel character, relation, or use.

Hard to treat or deal with; resisting effort or operation; refractory: applied to things.

Synonyms Insubordinate, disobedient. See insurgent, n., and insurrection.

Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. adjective

Showing rebellion. adjective

Participating in organized resistance to a constituted government adjective

Discontented as toward authority adjective

Resisting control or authority adjective

Showing rebellion.

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The word "rebellious" in example sentences

It was not until 1900s and what I call the rebellious generation, that Zionists and their Aparthied goals entered the Middle East and Palestine with help of the British Empire, this empire in this era changing from coal to oil used to drive their Navy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"No," quoth he, "when I say the colonies, I mean what you call the rebellious party in them." ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)

"Because it was King Charles's day; and they've fined and imprisoned and hung people for all kinds of what they call rebellious practices." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

My husband, being of English birth and having served in the king's army, cannot brook what he calls the rebellious talk which is common among his neighbors, and is already on bad terms with many around us. ❋ Unknown (1867)

"In the first place, sire, what do you term rebellious?" quietly asked the musketeer. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Receiving by heredity the fierce, bull-like nature of his father plus the passive indomitableness and groping spirit of his mother, Fomá, proud and rebellious, is repelled by the selfish, money-seeking environment into which he is born. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oh! how deceitful, how rebellious is the heart of man; how guilty and wretched even his best estate, Oh! the terror and horror of such impr? ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's not conformism that leads us to spend, spend, spend on the unnecessary and the ephemeral, but its opposite: the quest to distinguish ourselves from the masses through our enlightened, hip, or just plain rebellious consumer preferences. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Fomá, proud and rebellious, is repelled by the selfish, money-seeking environment into which he is born. ❋ Unknown (1910)

She and her husband, 72, who both agreed to an interview at their home Thursday, said they observed problems with the boy, whom they described as a rebellious teen, over the years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Subsequently, his son had telephoned and spoken to him, although the two have not met since the boy - whom the father described as "rebellious" - left home in 2007. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They might not understand all the words to her songs but they get her message - "different", "unique", "rebellious" -- all adjectives used to describe her by the students I interviewed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In one corner, we have a source telling the Sunday Mail that the chief whip and Downing Street enforcer, Nick Brown, has drawn up a hit-list of "lazy" (aka rebellious) Labour MPs, who could well be whacked (aka deselected) ahead of the next election. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In other words, she was the anti-Brooke White, which is to say the rebellious-looking white girl - not American, so obviously not able to fill the "all-American" blonde figure that a former idol, Carrie Underwood, could represent. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)

And those are the so called rebellious, hot labels: they are afraid even to sit in the same room with me! ❋ Unknown (1998)

Such a one, however, would be more properly called rebellious than heretical. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Or if, as may be, the rebellious are the more high-spirited and daring, the majority help to curb them in order to establish firmly a regime in which prison life in its whole extent will be redeemed from its contaminating sordidness and degradation. ❋ Unknown (1911)

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