defiance Antonyms
Strongest:
- subordination
- submission
- amiability
- compliance
- subservience
- compliance
- submission
- subservience
- subordination
- obedience
- tractability
- tractability
- obedience
- amiability
Strong:
- submissiveness
- slavishness
- docility
- subserviency
- submissiveness
- subserviency
- amenability
- agreeability
- subordinateness
- subordinateness
- slavishness
- docility
- deference
- amenability
- agreeability
- tractableness
- deference
- tractableness
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- waywardness
- contumacy
- insubordination
- intractability
- recalcitrance
- stubbornness
- rudeness
- refractoriness
- unruliness
Weak:
- impertinence
- inconsideration
- impoliteness
- naughtiness
- perversity
- mischievousness
- balkiness
- civil-disobedience
- pertinacity
- tenacity
- noncooperation
- doggedness
- peevishness
- frowardness
- obduracy
- insolence
- ungraciousness
- obstreperousness
- self-will
- impudence
- obstinacy
- inconsiderateness
- pigheadedness
- tenaciousness
Meaning of defiance
defiance (n)
intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
a hostile challenge
a defiant act
defiance (n.)
The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
defiance Sentence Examples
- Despite the curfew, a small group of protestors gathered in an act of defiance.
- The look in her eyes held a flicker of defiance, refusing to back down.
- The new law was met with widespread defiance from the affected communities.
- The lone soldier stood his ground against the overwhelming force, a symbol of unwavering defiance.
- Her art served as a powerful expression of defiance against societal norms.
- The children met their parents' restrictions with quiet defiance, refusing to give in entirely.
- The historical records documented the act of defiance that sparked the revolution.
- In defiance of the storm warnings, the captain set sail, determined to reach his destination.
- The journalist's exposé, filled with facts, was a direct defiance of the government's narrative.
- Throughout history, many have chosen to speak their truth in defiance of oppressive regimes.
FAQs About the word defiance
intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude, a hostile challenge, a defiant actThe act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challeng
rebellion, rebelliousness, contrariness, disobedience, willfulness, disrespect, waywardness, contumacy,insubordination, intractability
subordination, submission, amiability, compliance, subservience,compliance, submission, subservience, subordination, obedience
Despite the curfew, a small group of protestors gathered in an act of defiance.
The look in her eyes held a flicker of defiance, refusing to back down.
The new law was met with widespread defiance from the affected communities.
The lone soldier stood his ground against the overwhelming force, a symbol of unwavering defiance.
