Synonyms of the word

disobedient

• adj. Not obedient.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

contrary

• adj. Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
• adj. Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
• adj. Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.
• adv. Contrarily.
• n. The opposite.
• n. One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true.
• v. (obsolete) To oppose; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To impugn.
• v. (obsolete) To contradict (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To do the opposite of (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
• v. (obsolete) To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
• v. (obsolete) To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.

defiant

• adj. defying.
• adj. Boldly resisting opposition.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

fractious

• adj. given to troublemaking.
• adj. irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.

froward

• adj. (archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
• prep. (obsolete) Away from.

headstrong

• adj. Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.

incorrigible

• adj. Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
• adj. Incurably depraved; not reformable.
• adj. Impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
• adj. Unmanageable.
• adj. Determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
• adj. (archaic) Incurable.
• n. An incorrigibly bad individual.

insubordinate

• adj. Rebellious or defiant to authority.
• adj. Contumacious.

intractable

• adj. Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
• adj. (mathematics) Not able to be solved (of a mathematical problem).
• adj. Stubborn; obstinate (of a person).
• adj. (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).

noncompliant

• adj. Not compliant; rebellious.
• n. One who fails to comply, for example with a law.

obstinate

• adj. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
• adj. Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.

perverse

• adj. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
• adj. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
• adj. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

recalcitrant

• adj. Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.
• adj. Unwilling to cooperate socially.
• adj. Difficult to deal with or to operate.
• adj. (botany, of seed, pollen, spores) Not viable for an extended period; damaged by drying or freezing.
• n. A person who is recalcitrant.

recusant

• n. (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth…
• n. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
• adj. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy.

refractory

• adj. Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
• adj. Not affected by great heat.
• adj. (medicine) Difficult to treat.
• adj. (biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
• n. A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.

self-willed

• adj. Obstinate; strong-minded.
• adj. Possessing self-will.

stubborn

• adj. Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.

unmanageable

• adj. Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or…

unregenerate

• adj. which cannot be transformed in mind and spirit.
• adj. stubborn.

unruly

• adj. wild; uncontrolled.

wayward

• adj. given to wilful, perverse deviation from the expected norm; tending to stray.
• adj. obstinate, contrary and unpredictable.
• adj. (sports) not on target.

wilful

• adj. intentional; deliberate.
• adj. stubborn and determined.

willful

• adj. Intentional.
• adj. Stubborn.