incompliant
Won't follow rules
Incompliant means not compliant—refusing or failing to follow rules, requests, or requirements.
The word appears most often in formal or bureaucratic contexts: The facility was cited for incompliant safety procedures.
An incompliant patient doesn't follow medical advice; an incompliant company ignores regulations.
The tone is neutral and technical compared to more charged alternatives like defiant or disobedient.
Withstanding external forces
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- uncooperativeUnwilling to assist others
- recalcitrantStubbornly resistant to control
contrary · dissenting · oppositional · contumacious · refractory · balky · froward · unsubmissive
Firmly refusing to yield
- headstrongStubbornly self-willed
- bullheadedStubbornly refusing to yield
- obdurateStubbornly refusing to change
- pigheadedStubbornly refusing to yield
mulish · willful · pertinacious · dogged · tenacious · persistent · unyielding · unbending
Authority defier
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- insurgentOne who revolts
- mutinousDisposed to revolt
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
renegade · seditious · insurrectionary · subversive · iconoclast · maverick · contrarian · heretic
Unable to bend
- rigidUnable to bend
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
- unbendingRefusing to change position
- immovableIncapable of being shifted
steadfast · resolute · unswerving · implacable · unrelenting · iron-willed · firm · inexorable
resistant
Withstanding external forces
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- uncooperativeUnwilling to assist others
recalcitrant · contrary · dissenting · oppositional · contumacious · refractory · balky · froward · unsubmissive · intractable
obstinate
Firmly refusing to yield
- headstrongStubbornly self-willed
- bullheadedStubbornly refusing to yield
- obdurateStubbornly refusing to change
pigheaded · mulish · willful · pertinacious · dogged · tenacious · persistent · unyielding · unbending · intransigent
rebel
Authority defier
revolutionary · renegade · seditious · insurrectionary · subversive · iconoclast · maverick · contrarian · heretic · nonconformist
inflexible
Unable to bend
- rigidUnable to bend
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
- unbendingRefusing to change position
immovable · steadfast · resolute · unswerving · implacable · unrelenting · iron-willed · firm · inexorable · unwavering
comply, compliance, compliant, noncompliance, compliancy, noncompliant, compliantly, uncompliant, non-compliance