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rebellious

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Adjective
 : 
re=bel=lious

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective rebellious has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

rebelliousa. 
     Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rebellious, adj.
1 tending to rebel, insubordinate.
2 in rebellion.
3 defying lawful authority.
4 (of a thing) unmanageable, refractory.

Derivative
rebelliously adv. rebelliousness n.
Etymology
ME f. REBELLION + -OUS or f. earlier rebellous + -IOUS

THESAURUS

rebellious

alienated, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, breakaway, complaining, complaintful, contumacious, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, disobedient, displeased, disputatious, disputing, dissatisfied, dissentient, dissenting, envious, estranged, extreme, extremistic, factious, faultfinding, fractious, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, incorrigible, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, mutineering, mutinous, muttering, noncooperative, objecting, obstinate, obstructive, on the barricades, out of humor, peevish, petulant, proof against, protesting, querulant, querulous, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, resentful, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, restless, retardant, retardative, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious, stubborn, subversive, sulky, traitorous, treasonable, turbulent, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncooperative, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungovernable, ungratified, unhappy, unmanageable, unruly, unsatisfied, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, whiny, withstanding
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