Usually means: Resisting authority, boldly challenging compliance.
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  1. defiant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. defiant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defiant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. defiant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. defiant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. defiant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Defiant (DS9 episode), Defiant (G.I. Joe), Defiant (aircraft), Defiant, The Defiant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Defiant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. defiant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ adjective:  Defying.
▸ adjective:  Boldly resisting opposition.
▸ noun:  One who defies opposition.

Similar:
resistant, recalcitrant, insubordinate, obstreperous, resistive, nondefiant, undefiant, reluctant, disobedient, undefied, more...

Opposite:
compliant, obedient, submissive, acquiescent

Types:
uncooperative, disobedient, insubordinate, recalcitrant, contumacious, more...

Phrases:
oppositional defiant disorder, The Defiant Ones, Boulton Paul Defiant, USS Defiant, H.M.S. Defiant, more...

Adjectives:
oppositional, little, own, new, real, last, most, old, long, twain, angry

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     burgundy,     maroon,     firebrick,     carmine,     blood red,     cardinal



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Similar:
resistant, recalcitrant, insubordinate, obstreperous, resistive, nondefiant, undefiant, reluctant, disobedient, undefied, more...

Opposite:
compliant, obedient, submissive, acquiescent

Types:
uncooperative, disobedient, insubordinate, recalcitrant, contumacious, more...

Phrases:
oppositional defiant disorder, The Defiant Ones, Boulton Paul Defiant, USS Defiant, H.M.S. Defiant, defiant cry from a child, noisily and stubbornly defiant, opposite of defiant, defiant confidence, more...

Adjectives:
oppositional, little, own, new, real, last, most, old, long, twain, angry

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     burgundy,     maroon,     firebrick,     carmine,     blood red,     cardinal



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