English
Etymology
From Middle English rebellious; equivalent to rebel + -ious.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹəˈbɛliəs/, /ɹəˈbɛljəs/
- Rhymes: -ɛliəs
- Hyphenation: re‧bel‧lious
Adjective
rebellious (comparative more rebellious, superlative most rebellious)
- Showing rebellion.
2014 April 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Apr 17, 2014:"Tedd's feeling a bit rebellious." "I'm not rebelling! I'm self actualizing! By rebelling."
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Translations
showing rebellion
- Arabic: عَاصٍ (ʕāṣin)
- Egyptian Arabic: متمرد m (motamárred), متمردة f (motamarréda), متمردين pl (motamarredīn)
- Azerbaijani: üsyankar, asi (az) (dated)
- Bulgarian: бунтовнически (bg) (buntovničeski), непокорен (bg) (nepokoren)
- Catalan: rebel (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 叛逆的, 造反的，反抗的
- Dutch: opstandig (nl), weerbarstig (nl)
- Esperanto: ribelema, ribela
- Finnish: kapinallinen (fi), kapinoiva (fi)
- French: rebelle (fr), rétif (fr)
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: opstandich
- Galician: rebelde (gl), guerrilleiro (gl)
- German: aufsässig (de), rebellisch (de)
- Greek: ανυπότακτος (el) (anypótaktos)
- Hungarian: lázadó (hu), zendülő (hu), ellenszegülő (hu), engedetlen (hu), rebellis (hu)
- Irish: easumhal
- Italian: ribelle (it)
- Japanese: 反抗的な (ja) (hankōteki na)
- Kazakh: бағынбайтын (bağynbaityn)
- Korean: 반항적인 (banhangjeogin)
- Kyrgyz: тынчсыз (tıncsız)
- Latin: rebellis
- Norman: r'bêle
- Polish: buntowniczy (pl), niesforny (pl)
- Portuguese: rebelde (pt)
- Russian: мяте́жный (ru) (mjatéžnyj), повста́нческий (ru) (povstánčeskij), бунту́ющий (ru) (buntújuščij), бунта́рский (ru) (buntárskij)
- Spanish: rebelde (es), levantisco (es), contestatario (es)
- Swedish: rebellisk (sv)
- Turkish: asi (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: عاصی
- Urdu: عاصی ('āsī)
- Uzbek: osiy (uz)
- Welsh: gwrthryfelgar (cy)
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Middle English
Etymology
From rebellen + -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛˈbɛliuːs/, /rɛˈbɛljuːs/, /rɛˈbɛluːs/, /rɛˈbɛlius/, /rɛˈbɛljus/, /rɛˈbɛlus/
Adjective
rebellious (Late Middle English)
- Refusing to submit to authorities; rebellious.
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