defiance Antonyms
Strongest:
- compliance
- subservience
- tractability
- subordination
- tractability
- amiability
- submission
- submission
- compliance
- subordination
- obedience
- obedience
- subservience
- amiability
Strong:
- docility
- slavishness
- tractableness
- tractableness
- agreeability
- docility
- subserviency
- amenability
- slavishness
- submissiveness
- deference
- deference
- subordinateness
- subserviency
- amenability
- agreeability
- submissiveness
- subordinateness
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- contumacy
- unruliness
- intractability
- refractoriness
- rudeness
- waywardness
- insubordination
- stubbornness
- recalcitrance
Weak:
- naughtiness
- ungraciousness
- civil-disobedience
- frowardness
- tenacity
- peevishness
- inconsiderateness
- pertinacity
- pigheadedness
- obstreperousness
- insolence
- impoliteness
- doggedness
- perversity
- obstinacy
- mischievousness
- obduracy
- impudence
- impertinence
- inconsideration
- noncooperation
- tenaciousness
- balkiness
- self-will
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, willfulness, disobedience, disrespect, contrariness, rebelliousness, contumacy, unruliness, intractability, refractoriness
compliance, subservience, tractability, subordination, tractability, amiability, submission, submission, compliance, subordination
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.
