anti-authority
adjective
(alsoantiauthority)uk/ˌæn.ti.ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/ˌæn.taɪ.əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/believing, orexpressingthebelief, thatpeopleshould befreetoactas theywishand should not beforcedtoobeypeopleinauthority:
She was an anti-authorityfigurewho wasfearlessinexpressingherviews.
When theyleavecustody, theseyoungpeopleareevenmore anti-authority and anti-society thanpreviously.
Thestudentswereinfluencedby the antiauthority Free Speech Movement.
Synonym
anti-authoritarian
- Hiphopcultureiswidelyperceivedas anti-authority.
- He has had an anti-authorityattitudeforyears.
- All of thesongshad an anti-authoritytone.
Disobedient
- anti-authoritarian
- anti-authoritarianism
- contumacious
- defiance
- defiant
- defiantly
- disobedience
- disobediently
- indiscipline
- insubordinate
- insubordination
- mutinous
- naughtily
- naughty
- rebellious
- rebelliously
- rebelliousness
- ungovernable
- unruliness
- unruly