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Definition: Insubordinate |
InsubordinateAdjective1. Not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys". 2. Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "insubordinate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: InsubordinateSynonyms: resistant (adj), resistive (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: subordinate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disobedience | Adjective: disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible; restiff, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant; (refuse); recalcitrant; resisting; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Insubordinate |
| English words defined with "insubordinate": insubordination ♦ rebelliousness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "insubordinate": Actor and Actress. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, it looks insubordinate, but it isn't really (Lawrence of Arabia; writing credit: T.E. Lawrence; Robert Bolt) | |
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| "Insubordinate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Insubordinate" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
insubordinate | 6 |
employee insubordinate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "insubordinate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | opstandig (rebellious). (various references) | |
Albanian | i pashtruar (implacable, perverse, rebellious, restive, unlaid, unruly, unsubmissive, wild), i panënshtruar (rambunctious, refractory, unamenable, unsubdued, unswayed, unyielding). (various references) | |
Arabic | متمرد (disobedient, disorderly, insurgent, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, resistant, turbulent), غير محتل منزلة أدنى, عاصي, المتمرد (insubordination, mutineer), العاصي (insurgent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | непокорен човек, непокорен (contumacious, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, indocile, rambunctious, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, restive, tumultuous, unbowed, uncontrollable, undutiful, unfilial, unruly, unsubdued, unsubmissive, untoward, wayward), недисциплиниран (tumultuary, tumultuous, undisciplined). (various references) | |
Chinese | 犯上 (insubordination). (various references) | |
Czech | vzpurný (contumacious, defiant, disorderly, rebellious, recalcitrant, restive, unruly), neukáznìný (disorderly, indisciplined, obstreperous, turbulent, undisciplined), neposlušný (disobedient, rebellious, unruly). (various references) | |
Dutch | opstandig (rebellious), oproerig (rebellious). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ribelema (rebellious), malobeema (disobedient), malobea (disobedient). (various references) | |
Farsi | نافرمان (Disobedient, Naughty, Wayward), گردن کش , سرکش (Disobedient, Indomitable, Inelastic, Irrepressible, Malcontent, Malignant, Naughty, Random, Rebel, Rebellious, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Restive, Rowdy, Turbulent, Undaunted, Unruly, Unyielding, Wanton). (various references) | |
Finnish | uppiniskainen (obstinate, refractory), tottelematon (disobedient). (various references) | |
French | insubordonné, indiscipliné, rebelle (insurgent), désobéissant. (various references) | |
Frisian | dôfhûdich (disobedient). (various references) | |
German | unbotmäßig (rebellious, unruly), aufsässig (defiant, obstreperous, obstreperously, rebellious, rebelliously, recalcitrant, restive, truculent). (various references) | |
Greek | ανυπότακτοσ (contumacious, maverick, rebellious, recusant, refractory, unruly), απειθήσ (contumacious, disobedient, undutiful), απείθαρχοσ (recalcitrant, unmanageable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מר" י (insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebellious), לא מקבל מרות (intractable), לא ציתן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fegyelmezetlen (disorderly, inordinate, irrepressible, lax, obstreperous, undisciplined), engedetlen (disobedient, froward, intractable, rebellious, troublesome, unruly, unsubmissive). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tidak patuh, pembangkangan (insubordination), durhaka (rebellious, transgress, undutiful). (various references) | |
Italian | insubordinato, disubbidiente (disobedient, naughty). (various references) | |
Korean | 순종하지 않". (various references) | |
Manx | neuchurmeydagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ulydig (disobedient), oppsetsig. (various references) | |
Papiamen | desobediente (disobedient). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | insubordinateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insubordinado (rebellious), indisciplinado (rambunctious, recalcitrant, turbulent, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, unschooled), rebelde (contumacious, fractious, insurgent, insurrectionist, intractable, obstinate, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, reluctant, restive, unamenable, unruly, unsubmissive). (various references) | |
Romanian | insubordinat, refractar (fire-resisting, intractable, refractive, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unmanageable, unwilling), rebel (malcontent, mutineer, rebel, rebellious, stubborn), nesupus (contumacious, disobedient, intractable, rebellious, repugnant, unruly). (various references) | |
Russian | самовольный (self-willed), непокорный (contumacious, disobedient, indocile, lawless, rambunctious, recalcitrant, ungovernable, unruly, unsubmissive), неповинующийся, недисциплинированный (disorderly, rebellious, tumultuary, undisciplined), не подчиняющийся дисциплине. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neposlušan (contumacious, disobedient, recalcitrant, unruly), nepokoran (contumacious, disobedient, hardmouthed, unamenable, unconforming, unsubmissive). (various references) | |
Spanish | insubordinado (insubordination), rebelde (die hard, insurgent, mutinous, rebel, rebellious, refractory, revolted, revolting, undisciplined, wayward), persona rebelde, persona insubordinada. (various references) | |
Swedish | uppstudsig (fresh, refractory), upprorisk (insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebellious, riotous, seditious), olydig (disobedient, naughty). (various references) | |
Turkish | isyankâr (mutinous, rebellious), başkaldıran, asi (beat, contumacious, disobedient, insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mugwump, mutineer, mutinous, rebel, rebellious, rioter, seditious, ungovernable, unruly, unsubmissive, wayward). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | непокірна людина (recalcitrant), непокірний (defiant, lawless, recalcitrant, refractory, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người không chịu vâng lời, người không chịu phục tùng, không chịu vâng lời không thấp hơn, không chịu phục tùng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "insubordinate": insubordinately, insubordinates. (additional references) | |
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"Insubordinate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: insubordiante, insubordinated, isubordinate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "insubordinate" (pronounced i'nsubô"rdunā't or i'nsubô"rdunut) |
| 10 | -s u b ô" r d u n ā' t | subordinate. |
| 4 | -u n ā' t | agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, contaminate, culminate, hyphenate, illuminate, impersonate, decaffeinate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, detonate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fascinate, fulminate, germinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, incriminate, indoctrinate, inseminate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, nominate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, predominate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, renominate, resonate, ruminate, terminate, titanate, urinate. |
| 3 | -n ā' t | impregnate, designate, donate, hibernate, reincarnate, stagnate. |
| 7 | -ô" r d u n u t | coordinate, inordinate. |
| 4 | -u n u t | affectionate, baronet, bicarbonate, cabinet, compassionate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, effeminate, extortionate, fortunate, geminate, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, laminate, obstinate, passionate, proportionate, sultanate, unfortunate. |
| 3 | -n u t | alternate, Bennet, bluebonnet, bonnet, incarnate, electromagnet, ferromagnet, garnet, granite, hornet, magnate, magnet, minute, peanut, Pinot, planet, rennet, senate, Sennet, tenet, unit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: indurations, subordinate. | |
-3 letters: antibodies, auditories, banditries, boundaries, eruditions, induration, inebriants, inordinate, insinuated, insinuator, interbasin, inundators, obituaries, renditions, reunionist, ruinations, unstrained, uraninites, urbanities, urinations. | |
-4 letters: adsorbent, annuities, anointers, antinodes, antinoise, auditions, bannister, baritones, bastioned, bisontine, botanised, brainiest, branniest, braunites, breadnuts, butanones, diatribes, disorient, dubonnets, durations, eastbound, endbrains, erudition, ideations, indentors, indurates, inebriant, insertion, insinuate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: insubordinates. | |
+2 letters: insubordinately. | |
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