contumacious

Definitions

Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.

Rebellious and insubordinate in a scornful or contemptuous manner.

Examples

The contumacious prisoner refused to follow the warden's direct orders, leading to his immediate transfer to solitary confinement.

Despite the teacher's repeated warnings, the contumacious student continued to disrupt the lecture with insolent remarks.

Synonyms

insubordinate rebellious defiant mutinous recalcitrant unruly disobedient

Antonyms

obedient compliant submissive amenable docile tractable yielding