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