adj
Meaning 1
Showing rebellion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rebellious
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɹəˈbɛliəs/
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rhymes with -ɛliəs
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
discontented as toward authority
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
participating in organized resistance to a constituted government
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the rebelling confederacy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
resisting control or authority
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- temperamentally rebellious
- a rebellious crew
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English rebellious; equivalent to rebel + -ious.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَاصٍ (ʕāṣin) — showing rebellion
- Arabic: متمرد (motamárred) — showing rebellion
- Arabic: متمردة (motamarréda) — showing rebellion
- Arabic: متمردين (motamarredīn) — showing rebellion
- Azerbaijani: üsyankar — showing rebellion
- Azerbaijani: asi — showing rebellion
- Bulgarian: бунтовнически (buntovničeski) — showing rebellion
- Bulgarian: непокорен (nepokoren) — showing rebellion
- Catalan: rebel — showing rebellion
- Chinese Mandarin: 叛逆的 — showing rebellion
- Chinese Mandarin: 造反的 — showing rebellion
- Chinese Mandarin: 反抗的 — showing rebellion
- Dutch: opstandig — showing rebellion
- Dutch: weerbarstig — showing rebellion
- Esperanto: ribelema — showing rebellion
- Esperanto: ribela — showing rebellion
- Finnish: kapinallinen — showing rebellion
- Finnish: kapinoiva — showing rebellion
- French: rebelle — showing rebellion
- French: rétif — showing rebellion
- West-Frisian: opstandich — showing rebellion
- Galician: rebelde — showing rebellion
- Galician: guerrilleiro — showing rebellion
- German: aufsässig — showing rebellion
- German: rebellisch — showing rebellion
- Greek: ανυπότακτος (anypótaktos) — showing rebellion
- Hungarian: lázadó — showing rebellion
- Hungarian: zendülő — showing rebellion
- Hungarian: ellenszegülő — showing rebellion
- Hungarian: engedetlen — showing rebellion
- Hungarian: rebellis — showing rebellion
- Irish: easumhal — showing rebellion
- Italian: ribelle — showing rebellion
- Japanese: 反抗的な (hankōteki na) — showing rebellion
- Kazakh: бағынбайтын (bağynbaityn) — showing rebellion
- Korean: 반항적인 (banhangjeogin) — showing rebellion
- Kyrgyz: тынчсыз (tıncsız) — showing rebellion
- Latin: rebellis — showing rebellion
- Norman: r'bêle — showing rebellion
- Polish: buntowniczy — showing rebellion
- Polish: niesforny — showing rebellion
- Portuguese: rebelde — showing rebellion
- Russian: мяте́жный (mjatéžnyj) — showing rebellion
- Russian: повста́нческий (povstánčeskij) — showing rebellion
- Russian: бунту́ющий (buntújuščij) — showing rebellion
- Russian: бунта́рский (buntárskij) — showing rebellion
- Spanish: rebelde — showing rebellion
- Spanish: levantisco — showing rebellion
- Spanish: contestatario — showing rebellion
- Swedish: rebellisk — showing rebellion
- Turkish: asi — showing rebellion
- Ottoman Turkish: عاصی — showing rebellion
- Urdu: عاصی ('āsī) — showing rebellion
- Uzbek: osiy — showing rebellion
- Welsh: gwrthryfelgar — showing rebellion
Real reading context