'Insubordination' definitions:
Definition of 'insubordination'
From: WordNet
noun
Defiance of authority [ant: subordination]
noun
An insubordinate act [syn: insubordination, rebelliousness]
Definition of 'Insubordination'
From: GCIDE
- Insubordination \In`sub*or`di*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. insubordination.] The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insubordination'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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