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compliance

noun

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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