uncompliant
Won't follow rules
Uncompliant means not willing to comply—refusing to follow rules, requests, or expectations.
Someone uncompliant resists doing what they're told: The uncompliant patient refused to take his medication.
The word appears in formal or bureaucratic contexts more than everyday speech, where uncooperative or defiant might be preferred.
Refusing to give way
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- intransigentRefusing to compromise
- obdurateStubbornly refusing to change
- unbendingRefusing to change position
adamant · immovable · headstrong · willful · stubborn · bullheaded · mulish · pigheaded
Refusing to follow orders
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- uncooperativeUnwilling to assist others
- resistantWithstanding external forces
- contraryOpposed in nature
recalcitrant · unsubmissive · dissenting · nonconforming · unamenable · unaccommodating · refractory · contumacious
Authority defier
- insurgentOne who revolts
- mutinousDisposed to revolt
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
subversive · renegade · maverick · iconoclast · nonconformist · insurrectionary · seditious · defector
unyielding
Refusing to give way
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- intransigentRefusing to compromise
- obdurateStubbornly refusing to change
unbending · adamant · immovable · headstrong · willful · stubborn · bullheaded · mulish · pigheaded · dogged
disobedient
Refusing to follow orders
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- uncooperativeUnwilling to assist others
- resistantWithstanding external forces
contrary · recalcitrant · unsubmissive · dissenting · nonconforming · unamenable · unaccommodating · refractory · contumacious · froward
rebel
Authority defier
- insurgentOne who revolts
- mutinousDisposed to revolt
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
dissident · subversive · renegade · maverick · iconoclast · nonconformist · insurrectionary · seditious · defector · agitator
uncompliantcompliant
Yielding to others' wishes
obedient · submissive · docile · conforming · acquiescent
uncompliantcooperative
Jointly operated enterprise
accommodating · agreeable · willing · obliging · complaisant
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