Defiance

Noun

 * 1) The feeling, or spirit of being defiant.

Adjectives for Defiance
calm; silent; rare; quiet; fine; daring; resolute; firm; gay; mirthful; drawling; roaring; fierce; raucous; shrill; blatant; willful; ruffian; snarling; monstrous; shamefaced; reckless; desperate; murderous; mock; sneering; indignant; open; curious; passionate; exhilarating; quivering; quotable; shrinking; cringing; thundering; puny; irritating; perceptible; sudden; nomadic; scornful; admirable; maledictory; frank; potential; nonchalant; hurt; robust; half-frightened; schoolgirlish; unrighteous; mute; bristling; mortal;  contemptuous; solitary; mutual; bold; actual; successful; patient; implied; indomitable; still; suppressed ; savage.

Verbs for Defiance
attempt—; breathe—; fling—at; foster—; glare—; greet with—; hurl—; quell—; scorn—; shout—; snort—; sponsor—; stand firm in—; throw—at; uphold—.

Thesaurus
opposition, order, orneriness, passive resistance, perversity, protest, reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restiveness, revolt, shrewishness, stand, stubbornness, stump, summons, temerity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, wildness, withstanding, audacity, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, combative reaction, command, complaint, contempt, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, dare, declaration of war, defi, defiance of authority, defy, demur, despite, dispute, dissent, dissentience, effrontery, factiousness, fractiousness, hardihood, headstrongness, impudence, incorrigibility, indocility, indomitability, insolence, insubordination, insuppressibility, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, irrepressibility, muster, negativism, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness,

Etymology
From defiance from défiant (present participle of défier).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: непокорство
 * Chinese: 反抗, 蔑视
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 * Norwegian: motstand motvilje trass
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