rebelling
The word “rebelling” has 3 syllables: re-bel-ling
It's pronounced as /rɪˈbɛlɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for rebelling?
In the thesaurus, “rebelling” has 58 synonyms and 25 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for rebelling along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for rebelling
- balkiness
- bucking
- combating
- combatting
- contesting
- contrariness
- contumacy
- defiance
- defying
- disobedience
- disobeying
- disrespect
- dissent
- dissidence
- fighting
- frowardness
- hardheadedness
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- insurrection
- intractability
- kicking over the traces
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- mocking
- mulishness
- mutinousness
- mutiny
- mutinying
- naughtiness
- noncompliance
- noncooperation
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposing
- outbreak
- perversity
- pigheadedness
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recusancy
- refractoriness
- resisting
- revolt
- revolting
- revolutionizing
- rudeness
- self-will
- stubbornness
- unruliness
- waywardness
- willfulness
- withstanding
Antonyms for rebelling
- abidance
- acquiescence
- agreeability
- amenability
- attending
- capitulation
- compliance
- conformity
- following
- minding
- obedience
- obeisance
- obeying
- obsequiousness
- serving
- submission
- submissiveness
- submitting
- subordination
- surrender
- teachableness
- tractability
- tractableness
- trainability
- yielding
Meanings of rebelling
- verb
- To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
- noun
- An act or feeling of rebellion.
Example Sentences
- The students were rebelling against the new school policies.
- She started rebelling as a teenager to gain independence.
- They were rebelling not out of hatred, but out of desperation.
- The province is rebelling due to years of neglect.
- He’s always rebelling against authority in subtle ways.
On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rebelling, such as: abidance, acquiescence, agreeability, amenability, attending, balkiness, bucking.
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Related Words
objecting
- adversarial
- adverse
- afraid
- against
- against the grain
- aghast
- allergic
- antagonistic
- anti
- antipathetic
- antithetical
- antonymous
- at cross-purposes
- at odds
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- backward
- balked
- balking
- battling
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- belligerent
- bellyaching
- bitching
- bleating
- carping
- caterwauling
- caviling
- cavilling
- censuring
- challenging
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- combating
- complaining
- conflicting
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- disobeying
- disputed
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- dissatisfied
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- distressed
- divergent
- doubtful
- down
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- downcast
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- enemy
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- fussing
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- irreconcilable
- irregular
- keening
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- nagging
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- obstructive
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- quarreling
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- rebelling
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
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- repelling
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- rival
- screaming
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- shy
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- taking exception
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- vanquished
- wailing
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kicking
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- bleating
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- censuring
- challenging
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- criticizing
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- daring
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- demonstrating
- demurring
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- disappointed
- discontent
- discontented
- disobeying
- displeased
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- dissatisfied
- excepting
- expostulating
- fighting
- fretting
- fussing
- gagging
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- grizzling
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- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumbling
- grumping
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- hassling
- hollering
- inveighing
- irritable
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- kicking up a stink
- kvetching
- lamenting
- malcontent
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- maundering
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- nagging
- objecting
- peeved
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- place kick
- protesting
- punt
- put out
- quarreling
- quarrelling
- quibbling
- rebelling
- repining
- screaming
- sobbing
- squabbling
- squawking
- squealing
- stewing
- sticking
- sulky
- sullen
- taking exception
- taking issue
- testy
- uncontent
- ungratified
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- wailing
- whimpering
- whingeing
- whinging
- whining
- withstanding
- worrying
- wrangling
- yammering
- yauping
- yawping
- yowling
kicking over the traces
- bucking
- combating
- combatting
- contesting
- defying
- disobeying
- fighting
- mocking
- mutinying
- opposing
- rebelling
- resisting
- revolting
- revolutionizing
- withstanding
raising Cain
- acting out
- acting up
- blatant
- blusterous
- boisterous
- booming
- cacophonous
- carrying on
- chattering
- clamorous
- clangorous
- clattery
- cutting up
- deafening
- disobeying
- disorderly
- ear-popping
- ear-splitting
- fooling around
- horsing around
- jumping
- loud
- loudmouth
- misbehaving
- misconducting
- noisy
- obstreperous
- out of hand
- piercing
- rackety
- raising the roof
- rambunctious
- raspy
- rebelling
- riotous
- roughhousing
- rowdy
- running riot
- screaming
- showing off
- strepitous
- strident
- tumultuous
- turbulent
- turned up
- unmanageable
- unruly
- uproarious
- vociferous
- wild
raising hell
- acting out
- acting up
- carrying on
- cutting up
- disobeying
- fooling around
- horsing around
- misbehaving
- misconducting
- rebelling
- roughhousing
- running riot
- showing off