Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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. - Specifically, in metallurgy, difficult to reduce; requiring extra manipulation or extreme heat: said of ores from which it is difficult to separate the metal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Showing
rebellion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective participating in organized resistance to a constituted government
- adjective discontented as toward authority
- adjective resisting control or authority
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Examples
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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.
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"No," quoth he, "when I say the colonies, I mean what you call the rebellious party in them."
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"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."
In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First George Manville Fenn 1870
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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.
True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence 1867
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"In the first place, sire, what do you term rebellious?" quietly asked the musketeer.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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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.
Fomá Gordyéeff 2010
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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?
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,August 28, 1857 2008
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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.
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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.
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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.
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