MILITANTNESS Synonyms

• the quality of being bold and enterprising

• a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack

• a natural disposition to be hostile

• a state of deep-seated ill-will

• the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors

• an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

• (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

• a natural disposition to fight

• hostile or warlike attitude or nature

• a natural disposition to be hostile

• a militant aggressiveness

• an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• a hostile challenge

• a defiant act

• a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition

• a state of deep-seated ill-will

• the feeling of a hostile person

• violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

• an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• a formal and solemn declaration of objection

• a strong declaration of protest

• a natural disposition to be hostile

• refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• an insubordinate act

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• make revolution

• fill with distaste

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

• obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness

• The active absence of cooperation.