MUTINIES Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of mutiny

as in revolts

open fighting against authority (as one's own government) a mutiny led by the ship's cook

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mutinies

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mutiny

as in rebels

to rise up against established authority the party's conservative faction mutinied just before the election

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Recent Examples of mutinies

Noun

That mobility occasionally allowed for communication and coordination during mutinies. — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026 This includes leader assassination attempts by political opponents or lone wolves or mutinies by disgruntled soldiers who might even march on the presidential palace to demand higher pay, promotions or other policy concessions. — John Joseph Chin, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutinies

Noun

Starmer also has angered supporters with attempts to cut welfare spending, some of which were reversed after Labour revolts.

— CBS News, CBS News, 9 May 2026
Then came revolts and revolutions in Ireland, the Swiss cantons, the Rhineland, the Netherlands, the Italian states, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of revolts

Verb

Masahiro Motoki — the Oscar-winning star of Departures — plays a lord who rebels against warlord Oda Nobunaga and barricades himself inside Arioka Castle, only to face a string of unsolved murders within its walls.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
Set against the backdrop of the 1998 São Paulo World Cup between Brazil and France, Amarela follows 14-year-old Erika Oguihara (Melissa Uehara), a Japanese Brazilian sports fanatic who rebels against her family’s more Japanese cultural traditions.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of rebels

Noun

The narrative centers on the early careers and shifting dynamic between legendary figures Cao Cao and Yuan Shao as political corruption, peasant rebellions, and personal ambitions push the capital of Luoyang into absolute chaos.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 July 2026
That came after several tax rebellions broke out in the last decades of the 18th century.

— Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, The Conversation, 13 July 2026

Definition of rebellions

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The representatives to the convention, which also included prominent figures such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, considered the federal government’s ability to deal with uprisings and fiscal policy to be particularly important.

— Donovan Fifield, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
His unpopular reign was marked by disastrous wars, food shortages, unemployment, uprisings, and, ultimately, revolutions—two, to be precise.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026