Synonyms & related words for disobedience

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of disobedience — including noncompliance, insubordination, willfulness, recalcitrancy, indiscipline, recalcitrance. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to disobedience

Explore words related to disobedience — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include contumacy, disobedient, rebelliousness, disobediently, disobeying, flouting, contumacious, disobeyed. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for disobedience

Common synonyms for disobedience include noncompliance, insubordination, willfulness, recalcitrancy, indiscipline, recalcitrance, mutiny, refractoriness — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does disobedience come from?

The word disobedience breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: dis-, from Latin dis (“not, opposite of”); and -audi, from Latin audire (“to hear”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.