Synonyms of the word

rebel

• n. A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
• v. (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

arise

• v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
• v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
• v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

crusader

• n. A person engaged in a crusade.

dissent

• v. (intransitive) To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).
• v. (intransitive) To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
• n. Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
• n. An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
• n. (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome…
• n. (sports) A violation that arises when disagreement with an official call is expressed in an inappropriate…

greyback

• n. (historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
• n. (dated) A louse.
• n. A local name for various grey birds.

insurgent

• adj. Rebellious, opposing authority.
• n. one of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.

insurrectionist

• n. A person who provokes or takes part in an insurrection.

maverick

• adj. Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
• n. An unbranded range animal.
• n. One who does not abide by rules.
• n. One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
• n. (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em.
• n. (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as…
• v. (US) To take an unbranded range animal.

meliorist

• n. A proponent of meliorism.
• adj. Of or relating to meliorism.
• adj. Supporting the principles of meliorism.

nonconformist

• n. A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
• n. Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
• n. Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
• adj. Not conforming to established customs etc.

protest

• v. (intransitive) To make a strong objection.
• v. (transitive) To affirm (something).
• v. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To object to.
• v. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
• v. (law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against…
• n. A formal objection, especially one by a group.
• n. A collective gesture of disapproval: a demonstration.

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.

reformer

• n. One who reforms, or who works for reform.
• n. (historical) One who was involved in the Reformation.
• n. (chemical engineering, fuel cells) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of…
• n. (chemical engineering, petrochemistry) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically…

reformist

• adj. Advocating reform of an institution or body.
• adj. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary…
• n. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
• n. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed…
• n. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
• n. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from…
• n. A member of a reformed religious denomination.

renegade

• n. An outlaw or rebel.
• n. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
• v. To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.

resist

• v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
• v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
• v. (intransitive) To oppose.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
• n. A protective coating or covering.

revolutionary

• adj. Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution.
• adj. pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset.
• adj. (sciences) pertaining to something that revolves.
• n. A revolutionist; a person who revolts.

revolutionist

• n. A person who revolts.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

southern

• adj. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
• adj. Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

subversive

• adj. Intending to subvert, overturn or undermine a government or authority.
• n. A radical supporter of political or social revolution.

subverter

• n. One who subverts.