Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Disobedience

Nouns
  • disobedience, insubordination, contumacy
  • infraction, infringement
  • violation, noncompliance
  • nonobservance etc. Nonobservance. revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection
  • riot, tumult etc. (disorder) [Absence, or want of Order, etc.] Disorder
  • strike etc. (resistance) Resistance
  • barring out
  • defiance etc. Defiance. mutinousness etc. adj.
  • mutineering
  • sedition, treason
  • high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason
  • violation of law etc. [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality
  • defection, secession. insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur
  • seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue
  • Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade
  • ringleader.
Verbs
  • disobey, violate, infringe
  • shirk
  • set at defiance etc. (defy) Defiance
  • set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of
  • take the law into one's own hands
  • kick over the traces. turn restive, run restive
  • champ the bit
  • strike etc. (resist) Resistance
  • rise, rise in arms
  • secede
  • mutiny, rebel.
Adjectives
  • disobedient
  • uncomplying, uncompliant
  • unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable
  • breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible
  • restiff, restive
  • refractory, contumacious, recusant etc. (refuse) Refusal
  • recalcitrant
  • resisting etc. Resistance
  • lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous. unobeyed
  • unbidden.
Phrases
  • unthread the rude eye of rebellion" [King John].