Rebel Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-bĕl
To resist or endeavor to overthrow a government or other authority
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rise
  2. mutiny
  3. revolt
  4. resist
  5. arise
  6. rise-up
  7. oppose
  8. riot
  9. renegade
  10. secede
  11. turn-against
  12. defy
  13. resist authority
  14. resist lawful authority
  15. fight in the streets
  16. strike
  17. boycott
  18. break-with
  19. adversary
  20. overturn
  21. anarchist
  22. antagonist
  23. take up arms against
  24. start an uprising
  25. start a confrontation
  26. demagogue
  27. denounce
  28. renounce
  29. combat
  30. dissenter
  31. iconoclast
  32. be insubordinate
  33. insubordinate
  34. be treasonable
  35. upset
  36. insurgent
  37. overthrow
  38. mutineer
  39. dethrone
  40. disobey
  41. raise-hell
  42. nonconformist
  43. kick up a row
  44. run-amok
  45. radical
  46. recusant
  47. revolutionary
  48. revolutionist
Antonyms:
  1. obey
  2. submit
  3. agree
  4. be contented
  5. comply
A person of independent opinions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. independent
  2. individualist
  3. iconoclast
  4. nonconformist
  5. maverick
  6. innovator
  7. experimenter
  8. experientialist
  9. malcontent
To object
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dispute
  2. resist
  3. shrink from
  4. be repelled
Not obeying
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. anarchical
  2. defiant
  3. disaffected
  4. fractious
  5. insubordinate
  6. insurgent
  7. insurrectionary
  8. malcontent
  9. mutinous
  10. perverse
  11. rebellious
  12. recalcitrant
  13. refractory
  14. restive
  15. seditious
  16. stubborn
  17. unruly
Antonyms:
  1. compliant
  2. obedient
  3. complaisant
`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reb
  2. johnny-reb
  3. johnny
  4. greyback

Words Related to Rebel

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Rebel Sentence Examples

  • He was once again the rebel commander and not her Guardian.

  • She sensed Talon was about to rebel, as was she at the thought of swimming after such an exhausting walk.

  • In the civil war of 1868 the town was taken by the rebel fleet, but it was recovered by the mikado in 1869.

  • Hotspur was killed, the earls of Douglas and Worcester, Sir Richard Venables of Kinderton, and Sir Richard Vernon were captured, and the rebel army dispersed.

  • The Hebrew name for Orion also means "fool," in reference perhaps to a mythological story of a "foolhardy, heaven-daring rebel who was chained to the sky for his impiety" (Driver).

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