mutinous
/ˈmjuːtɪnəs
/adjective
1(Of a soldier or sailor) refusing to obey the orders of a person in authority: mutinous soldiers occupied the radio station...
- The revolution itself had been carried out mainly by mutinous soldiers, who represented thereafter the only real authority.
- For more than 200 years, this volcanic rock has been home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutinous shipmates, who burnt the HMS Bounty here in 1790.
- In 1857, a rebellion in north India led by mutinous Indian soldiers caused the British Parliament to transfer all political power from the East India Company to the Crown.
Synonyms
rebellious, insubordinate, subversive, seditious, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, rebel, revolutionary;
anarchistic, lawless, riotous, rioting, traitorous, factious;
disobedient, defiant, wilful, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, disaffected, up in arms, unruly, disorderly, out of control, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unbiddable
British informal bolshie
archaic contumacious
1.1Wilful or disobedient: Antoinette looked mutinous, but she obeyed...
- When she is not at her desk, nervy Virginia is being beastly to the staff, ordering her mutinous cook to make a train journey all the way from Richmond to the centre of town to get some sugar-ginger for lunch.
- I elude authority and make a tidy living being the mutinous karate girl in the corner.
- They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
Derivatives
mutinously
/ adverb ...- ‘I don't see why not,’ muttered Louis mutinously.
- It was his father's entire fault, he thought mutinously as the guards he passed occasionally in the hallway all saluted him mockingly.
- Kitty suddenly bent towards her, brown eyes flashing mutinously.
Origin
Late 16th century: from obsolete mutine 'rebellion' (see mutiny) + -ous.