rebellious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=bel=lious
• COUNT in NET: 58 in 56 verses (in OT : 56 in 54 verses) (in NT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

rebellious, a. 

 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