mutineer
mutineer
nounDefinition of MUTINEER
a person who rises up against authority <the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas>
Synonyms insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, red, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist
Related Words challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister; anarch, anarchist; discontent, extremist, malcontent, radical
Near Antonyms loyalist, patriot, supporter; counterinsurgent, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist
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