Usually means: Disobedient to authority or orders.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. insubordinate: Merriam-Webster
  2. insubordinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insubordinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insubordinate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insubordinate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insubordinate, insubordinate: Wordnik
  7. insubordinate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insubordinate: Wiktionary
  9. insubordinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insubordinate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insubordinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Insubordinate, insubordinate: Dictionary.com
  13. insubordinate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Insubordinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. insubordinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. insubordinate: Rhymezone
  17. Insubordinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. insubordinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. insubordinate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. insubordinate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. insubordinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insubordinate: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insubordinate: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Rebellious or defiant to authority; contumacious.
▸ noun:  A person who defies authority.

Similar:
disobedient, unruly, rebellious, defiant, resistant, contumacious, mutinous, resistive, noncompliant, insubmissive, more...

Opposite:
submissive, obedient, dutiful

Types:
disobedient, recalcitrant, contumacious, insolent, defiant, more...


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Similar:
disobedient, unruly, rebellious, defiant, resistant, contumacious, mutinous, resistive, noncompliant, insubmissive, more...

Opposite:
submissive, obedient, dutiful

Types:
disobedient, recalcitrant, contumacious, insolent, defiant, more...



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