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compliance

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Synonyms and Antonyms of compliance

1 a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others

a strong-willed pop star who is not known for her compliance

Synonyms of compliance

acquiescence, biddability, compliancy, deference, docility, obedience, submissiveness

Words Related to compliance

amenability, amiability, complaisance, good-naturedness

obsequiousness, servility, slavishness, subservience, subserviency

conformity

cooperativeness, receptiveness, receptivity

humoring, indulgence

acceptance, assent, consent

capitulation, submission, surrender

affability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability

Near Antonyms of compliance

animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill will

Antonyms of compliance

defiance, disobedience, intractability, recalcitrance

2 a bending to the authority or control of another

an administrator who demands prompt and unquestioning compliance from subordinates

Synonyms of compliance

conformity, obedience, submission, subordination

Words Related to compliance

abidance, agreeability, amenability, teachableness, tractability, tractableness, trainability

acquiescence, capitulation, obeisance, obsequiousness, submissiveness, surrender, yielding

deference, docility, dutifulness, humility, meekness, modesty, servility, slavishness, subordinateness, subservience, subserviency

inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression

control, discipline, dutifulness, order

Near Antonyms of compliance

noncooperation, recusancy

disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness

insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, revolt

hardheadedness, mulishness, mutinousness, obstinacy, obstinateness, perversity, pigheadedness, stubbornness

misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness

dissent, dissidence

Antonyms of compliance

balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness

3 the following of a custom, rule, or law

compliance with the statute was far from universal

Synonyms of compliance

abidance, adherence, conformance, conformity, keeping, obedience, observance, observation

Words Related to compliance

deference, honor, regard, respect, upholding

accession, acquiescence, submission, surrender

attendance, attention, heed, notice

Near Antonyms of compliance

brush-off, disregard, ignoring

delinquency, dereliction, forgetting, neglect, overlooking

offense (or offence), sin, wrong

challenge, defiance, flouting, rebellion

Antonyms of compliance

breach, contravention, infraction, infringement, nonobservance, transgression, trespass, violation

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