Synonyms for rebel

noun

1. A person engaged in a political revolution

   insurrectionist, revolutionary, revolutionist, agitator, insurgent, insurrectionary, traitor, seditionist, mutineer, subversive, subverter, anarchist, overthrower, nihilist, guerrilla, freedom fighter, member of the uprising, rioter, demagogue, revolter, separatist, malcontent, dissident, schismatic, deserter, dissenter, seceder, apostate, sectarian, turncoat, counterrevolutionary, renegade, secessionist, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyite, underground worker, Third Worlder, refusenik; see also radical.

2. A person of independent opinions

   independent, individualist, iconoclast, nonconformist, maverick, innovator, experimenter, experientialist, malcontent.

verb

1. To resist or endeavor to overthrow a government or other authority

   rise up, rise, resist, revolt, turn against, defy, resist authority, resist lawful authority, fight in the streets, strike, boycott, break with, overturn, mutiny, riot, take up arms against, start an uprising, start a confrontation, secede, renounce, combat, oppose, be insubordinate, be treasonable, upset, overthrow, dethrone, disobey, raise hell*, kick up a row*, run amok*.

   Antonyms submit, obey*, be contented.

2. To object

   dispute, resist, shrink from, be repelled; see oppose 1, recoil.