Entry Word: disobedience

Function: noun

Meaning: refusal to obey <they gave up on training the dog to fetch because of his constant disobedience>

Synonyms contrariness, defiance, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness, willfulness

Related Words disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness; doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, stubbornness; mischievousness, naughtiness

Near Antonyms agreeability, amiability; slavishness, submissiveness, subservience

Antonyms amenability, compliance, docility, obedience