Roget's Thesaurus

#742. Disobedience

Nouns

disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance etc. 773. revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute [Fr.]; riot, tumult etc. (disorder) 59; strike etc. (resistance) 719; barring out; defiance etc. 715. mutinousness etc. adj.; mutineering; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire [Lat.]; lese majeste [Fr.]; violation of law etc. 964; defection, secession. insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes [Fr.], red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.

Verbs

disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance etc. (defy) 715; set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces. turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike etc. (resist) 719; rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.

Adjectives

disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible; restiff, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant etc. (refuse) 764; recalcitrant; resisting etc. 719; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous. unobeyed; unbidden.

Phrases

seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Lat.] [Tacitus]; unthread the rude eye of rebellion [King John].