THESAURUS
agitator, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bitter-ender, blade, bravo, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, duelist, enforcer, extremist, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frondeur, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intransigent, irreconcilable, jouster, knight, last-ditcher, litigant, malcontent, maverick, militant, mutineer, naysayer, negativist, nonconformist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, plaintiff, plug-ugly, protester, quarreler, rebel, resister, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, subversive, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, traitor, tussler, wrangler
ROGET THESAURUS
Opponent
N
opponent, antagonist, adversary, adverse party, opposition, enemy, the other side, assailant, oppositionist, obstructive,
brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant, filibuster, obstructionist, malcontent, Jacobin, Fenian, demagogue, reactionist, rival, competitor, bete noir.
Disobedience
N
disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade,
brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.
Blusterer
N
blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer,
brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer, Mohock, Mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, rowdy, slang-whanger, tough, puppy, prig, Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock.
