defiant

defiant
    adj 1: boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought
           up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"
           [syn: {defiant}, {noncompliant}] [ant: {compliant}]
    

Defiant \De*fi"ant\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]fiant, p. pr. of d['e]fier.
   See {Defy}.]
   Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or
   act.
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         In attitude stern and defiant.           --Longfellow.
   -- {De*fi"ant*ly}, adv. -- {De*fi"ant*ness}, n.
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "defiant":
      aggressive, antagonistic, arrogant, audacious, belligerent,
      beyond control, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, breachy, bumptious,
      challenging, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, contumacious, daring,
      defying, derisive, disdainful, disobedient, disregardful,
      fractious, greatly daring, gutsy, headstrong, hostile,
      impatient of control, impertinent, impudent, incorrigible,
      indocile, indomitable, insolent, insubordinate, insuppressible,
      intractable, irrepressible, mutinous, obstinate, obstreperous,
      ornery, out of hand, pert, pugnacious, rebellious, recalcitrant,
      refractory, regardless of consequences, resistant, resisting,
      restive, saucy, self-willed, shrewish, spunky, stubborn,
      unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable,
      unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, unyielding, wild