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defiant 音标拼音: [dɪf'ɑɪənt] a. 挑衅的,目中无人的 挑舋的,目中无人的 defiant adj 1: boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; " brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; " a defiant attitude" [ synonym: { defiant}, { noncompliant}] [ ant: { compliant}] Defiant \ De* fi" ant\, a. [ Cf. F. d[' e] fiant, p. pr. of d[' e] fier. See { Defy}.] Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act. [ 1913 Webster] In attitude stern and defiant. -- Longfellow. -- { De* fi" ant* ly}, adv. -- { De* fi" ant* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 68 Moby Thesaurus words for " defiant": aggressive, antagonistic, arrogant, audacious, belligerent, beyond control, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, breachy, bumptious, challenging, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, contumacious, daring, defying, derisive, disdainful, disobedient, disregardful, fractious, greatly daring, gutsy, headstrong, hostile, impatient of control, impertinent, impudent, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insolent, insubordinate, insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, mutinous, obstinate, obstreperous, ornery, out of hand, pert, pugnacious, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, regardless of consequences, resistant, resisting, restive, saucy, self- willed, shrewish, spunky, stubborn, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, unyielding, wild
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