Definitions for rebellious

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rebellious re·bel·lious

Spelling: [ri-bel-yuh s]

IPA: /rɪˈbɛl yəs/

Rebellious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in rebellious (beeillorsu).

Definitions for rebellious

adjective

1. defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of rebels or rebellion.
3. (of things) resisting treatment; refractory.

Origin of rebellious

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin rebelliōsus, equivalent to Latin rebelli(ō) rebellion + -ōsus -ous

Examples for rebellious

Fenner says he saw a 12-year-old boy isolated from his parents for weeks because he was being “rebellious.”

She could not bear that hurt, rebellious, lonely look which they had worn.

Tillie, afraid of her rebellious spirit, went to prayer meeting.

“In high school, I was considered the most rebellious girl,” Perl says.

The governor, a coward or a traitor, rendered thee to the rebellious crowd.

To bring it from its haughty, rebellious pedestal, down to cordiality and love.

So instead of having rebellious teens, I had my rebellious 20s.

At last it lost its power, and could not help her in checking her rebellious thoughts.

But now everything was a good pretext to vent the rebellious mood.

In the first chapter, rebellious Holly Sykes runs away from home and headlong into the melancholy perils of first love.