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insubordinate
CIDE DICTIONARY
insubordinate, a.
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
insubordinate, adj. disobedient; rebellious.
Derivative
insubordinately adv. insubordination n.
THESAURUS
insubordinate
agitator, brawler, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, dissentious, extremist, factious, fractious, frondeur, headstrong, heady, incompliant, indocile, insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intractable, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, malcontent, maverick, mutineer, mutinous, nonconformist, noncooperating, noncooperative, obstreperous, perverse, rampant, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, seditious, self-willed, subversive, traitor, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncompliant, uncomplying, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungovernable, ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, wildcat, willfulROGET THESAURUS
insubordinate
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.For further exploring for "insubordinate" in Webster Dictionary Online