REVOLT Synonyms

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• a hostile challenge

• a defiant act

• the failure to obey

• the trait of being unwilling to obey

• (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority

• a difference of opinion

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• withhold assent

• express opposition through action or words

• be of different opinions

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

• open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

• engage in a mutiny against an authority

• a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

• `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

• someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

• break with established customs

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government

• refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• strong feelings of dislike

• fill with distaste

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

• upset and make nauseated

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

• cause to move back by force or influence

• be repellent to; cause aversion in

• force or drive back

• reject outright and bluntly

• fill with distaste

• advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• sloping upward

• coming to maturity

• newly come into prominence

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

• get sick

• upset and make nauseated

• make sick or ill

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

• fill with distaste

• lose one's nerve