rebellious

English

Alternative forms

• rebellous (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English rebellious; equivalent to rebel +‎ -ious.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈbɛliəs/, /ɹəˈbɛljəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛliəs
• Hyphenation: re‧bel‧lious

Adjective

rebellious (comparative more rebellious, superlative most rebellious)

1. Showing rebellion.
   • 2014 April 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Apr 17, 2014:

     "Tedd's feeling a bit rebellious." "I'm not rebelling! I'm self actualizing! By rebelling."

Synonyms

• defiant
• restive

Antonyms

• docile

Derived terms

• rebelliously
• rebelliousness

 

Translations

showing rebellion

• Arabic: عَاصٍ (ʕāṣin)

  Egyptian Arabic: متمرد m (motamárred), متمردة f (motamarréda), متمردين pl (motamarredīn)

• Azerbaijani: üsyankar, asi (az) (dated)
• Bulgarian: бунтовнически (bg) (buntovničeski), непокорен (bg) (nepokoren)
• Catalan: rebel (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叛逆的, 造反的，反抗的

• Dutch: opstandig (nl)
• Esperanto: ribelema, ribela
• Finnish: kapinallinen (fi), kapinoiva (fi)
• French: rebelle (fr), rétif (fr)
• Galician: rebelde, guerrilleiro
• German: aufsässig (de), rebellisch (de)
• Greek: ανυπότακτος (el) (anypótaktos)
• Hungarian: lázadó (hu), zendülő (hu), ellenszegülő (hu), engedetlen (hu), rebellis (hu)
• Irish: easumhal
• Italian: ribelle (it)
• Japanese: 反抗的な (ja) (hankōteki na)
• Korean: 반항적인 (banhangjeogin)
• Kyrgyz: тынчсыз (tıncsız)
• Latin: rebellis
• Norman: r'bêle
• Ottoman Turkish: عاصی
• Portuguese: rebelde (pt)
• Russian: мяте́жный (ru) (mjatéžnyj), повста́нческий (ru) (povstánčeskij), бунту́ющий (ru) (buntújuščij), бунта́рский (ru) (buntárskij)
• Spanish: rebelde (es), levantisco (es), contestatario (es)
• Turkish: asi (tr)
• Urdu: عاصی ('āsī)
• Uzbek: osiy (uz)
• Welsh: gwrthryfelgar (cy)
• West Frisian: opstandich

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rebellous, rebellyus, rebellouse

Etymology

From rebellen +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈbɛliuːs/, /rɛˈbɛljuːs/, /rɛˈbɛluːs/, /rɛˈbɛlius/, /rɛˈbɛljus/, /rɛˈbɛlus/

Adjective

rebellious (Late Middle English)

1. Refusing to submit to authorities; rebellious.

Descendants

• English: rebellious

References

• “rebelliǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-16.