Antonyms for defiant
dɪˈfaɪ əntde·fi·ant

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1. defiantadjective

   Synonyms:
   dareful

2. defiantadjective

   Defying.

   Synonyms:
   dareful

3. defiantadjective

   Boldly resisting opposition.

   Synonyms:
   dareful

Princeton's WordNetRate this antonym:2.6 / 5 votes

1. defiant, noncompliantadjective

   boldly resisting authority or an opposing force

   "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"

   Antonyms:
   compliant, conformable, lamblike, nonresistant, amenable

   Synonyms:
   noncompliant

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1. defiantadjective

   Antonyms:
   obedient, tractable, submissive

   Synonyms:
   disobedient, insubmissive, contumacious, bellicose, rebellious, contumelious, refractory, cockahoop, mutinous

How to use defiant in a sentence?

1. Kate Andersen:

   There's never been any first lady as stubborn and defiant as Melania Trump.

2. French President Emmanuel Macron:

   I hear the defiance of all our partners, I'm not mad, but I know that being defiant and weak... is not a policy, it's a completely inefficient system, there is a second choice, which is to be demanding and restart a strategic dialogue because today we talk less and less, conflicts multiply and we aren't able to resolve them, he added. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who spoke immediately after Pompeo, focused his remarks solely on China, accusing Beijing of a.

3. Artavious Coleman:

   One of them actually lunged at one of the officers. He went for a tackle. Thats when I pulled out my phone, they got defiant, aggressive, and the officer had no other choice to defend himself, I think.

4. Amy Oakes:

   She was diagnosed in first grade after there were some difficulties in the classroom, but there were other components to it -- there was oppositional defiant disorder, there were some [autism] spectrum-like behaviors, and difficulty later on socializing with other children.

5. Lady Gaga:

   As a victim of sexual assault Lady Gaga, I made both the song and the video at a dark time in my life, my intention was to create something extremely defiant and provocative because I was angry and still hadn't processed the trauma that had occurred in my own life.

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