Insubordination

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insubordination \In`sub*or`di*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
     insubordination.]
     The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful
     authority.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insubordination
       n 1: defiance of authority [ant: {subordination}]
       2: an insubordinate act [syn: {rebelliousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "insubordination":
     civil disobedience, disobedience, frowardness, indiscipline,
     indocility, infraction, infringement, interregnum, intractability,
     irresponsibility, lawbreaking, lawlessness, license,
     licentiousness, mutiny, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity,
     noncooperation, nonobedience, passive resistance, power vacuum,
     rampant will, recusancy, transgression, unaccountability,
     uncontrol, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness,
     unrestraint, unsubmissiveness, violation, waywardness,
     willful disobedience, willfulness