Synonyms for rebellious

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1. Engaged in armed rebellion

   revolutionary, insurgent, counterrevolutionary, warring, insurrectionary, attacking, rioting, mutinous, rebel; see also sense 2, 3.

   Antonyms beaten*, overwhelmed, loyal.

2. Inclined toward rebellion

   dissident, factious, seditious, fractious, disobedient, treasonable, refractory, defiant, resistant, restless, restive, riotous, insubordinate, quarrelsome, bellicose, sabotaging, subversive, disloyal, disaffected, alienated, ungovernable, unruly, threatening.

   Antonyms docile*, peaceful, acquiescent.

3. Apt to oppose authority

   anarchistic, iconoclastic, individualistic, radical, pugnacious, quarrelsome, independent-minded, stubborn, contemptuous, insolent, contumacious, alienated, scornful, uncontrollable, intractable, unyielding, recalcitrant, disobedient, feisty*; see also lawless 2.

   Antonyms dutiful, tractable, yielding*.