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