Synonyms of mutineers

mutineers

noun

plural of mutineer

as in rebels

a person who rises up against authority

the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebels
• insurgents
• revolutionaries
• revolters
• insurrectionists
• revolutionists
• reds
• oppositionists
• challengers
• resisters
• anarchists
• recusants
• insurrectionaries
• radicals
• discontents
• extremists
• resistants
• defiers
• refusers
• anarchs
• insubordinates
• malcontents

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• supporters
• loyalists
• patriots
• counterrevolutionaries
• counterinsurgents
• counterrevolutionists

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mutineers

Pitcairn Island Pitcairn is British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific that was famously born from the last refuge of the Bounty mutineers, who arrived in 1789 with a small company of Tahitians. — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026

Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt. — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

The latter is exactly why the Bounty mutineers and a handful of Tahitians in their party chose to settle here in 1790; so they couldn't be easily invaded by the British Navy. — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023