Usually means: Resisting authority, boldly challenging compliance.
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  1. defiant: Merriam-Webster
  2. defiant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defiant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defiant: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Defiant, defiant: Wordnik
  7. defiant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defiant: Wiktionary
  9. defiant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defiant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defiant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Defiant, defiant: Dictionary.com
  13. defiant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Defiant (DS9 episode), Defiant (G.I. Joe), Defiant (aircraft), Defiant, The Defiant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Defiant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. defiant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. defiant: Rhymezone
  18. defiant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. defiant: FreeDictionary.org
  20. defiant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. defiant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. defiant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Defiant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defiant)

▸ adjective:  Defying.
▸ adjective:  Boldly resisting opposition.
▸ noun:  One who defies opposition.

Similar:
resistant, recalcitrant, insubordinate, obstreperous, resistive, nondefiant, undefiant, reluctant, disobedient, undefied, more...

Opposite:
compliant, obedient, submissive, acquiescent

Types:
uncooperative, disobedient, insubordinate, recalcitrant, contumacious, more...

Phrases:
oppositional defiant disorder, The Defiant Ones, Boulton Paul Defiant, USS Defiant, H.M.S. Defiant, more...

Adjectives:
oppositional, little, own, new, real, last, most, old, long, twain, angry

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Similar:
resistant, recalcitrant, insubordinate, obstreperous, resistive, nondefiant, undefiant, reluctant, disobedient, undefied, more...

Opposite:
compliant, obedient, submissive, acquiescent

Types:
uncooperative, disobedient, insubordinate, recalcitrant, contumacious, more...

Phrases:
oppositional defiant disorder, The Defiant Ones, Boulton Paul Defiant, USS Defiant, H.M.S. Defiant, defiant cry from a child, noisily and stubbornly defiant, opposite of defiant, defiant confidence, more...

Adjectives:
oppositional, little, own, new, real, last, most, old, long, twain, angry

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     burgundy, more...



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