Word Meanings - INSURGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSURGENT)

• Mutinous
• Turbulent
• seditious
• insurgent
• riotous
• tumultuous
• unruly
• refractory
• insurrectionary
• Rebel
• Revolter
• traitor
• Seditious
• Insurgent
• rebellious
• turbulent
• factious
• mutinous

Related words: (words related to INSURGENT)

• MUTINOUS
  Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay. -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• TURBULENTLY
  In a turbulent manner.
• REBEL
  Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. Whoso be rebel to my judgment. Chaucer. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
• SEDITIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. 2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent;
• REBELLION
  Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
• TRAITORLY
  Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
• TURBULENT
  1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory;
• REBELDOM
  A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct o Thackeray.
• INSURRECTIONARY
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.
• REBELLER
  One who rebels; a rebel.
• REFRACTORY
  1. A refractory person. Bp. Hall. 2. Refractoriness. Jer. TAylor. 3. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight.
• REBELLIOUS
  Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. "Thy rebellious crew." "Proud rebellious arms." Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly, adv. -- Re*bel"lious*ness, n.
• UNRULY
  Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.
• TRAITOROUS
  1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak. 2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. -- Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv. -- Trai"tor*ous*ness,
• TRAITORESS
  A traitress. Rom. of R.
• CEREBELLAR; CEREBELLOUS
  Pertaining to the cerebellum.
• CEREBEL
  The cerebellum. Derham.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.
• INSURGENT
  Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.