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[1] [2] A rebel is a person who engages in a rebellion. A rebel group is a consciously coordinated group that seeks to gain political control over an entire state or a portion of a state. [ 2 ] A rebellion is often caused by political, religious, or social grievances that originate from a perceived inequality or marginalization.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
The dictionary definition of contranym at Wiktionary; The dictionary definition of Appendix:English contranyms at Wiktionary; Contronyms by language in Wiktionary; Autoantonyms page on fun-with-words.com; List of English examples at LingerAndLook.com
The classification of rebels vs. revolutionaries, terrorists, insurgents, or freedom fighters is a controversial one. While "rebel" is a general term, a rebel may be called a "terrorist" by the authority figures and may call themself a "freedom fighter". A rebel who seeks to completely transform society should be in Category:Revolutionaries.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Inert is from Latin iners, meaning "without skill". The corresponding Latin antonym, ars, is the source of English art, which is not an antonym of inert. Inflammable Flammable Synonym. From Latin flammare meaning "to catch fire". Inflammable is from Latin inflammare meaning "to cause to catch fire". Antonym is nonflammable. [4] Innocent Nocent ...
Rebel, a 1969 novel by Bediako Asare; Rebel Magazine, a British fashion and lifestyle magazine; Rebel, a 1986 graphic novel by Pepe Moreno; Rebel, the first book of The Starbuck Chronicles, a series by Bernard Cornwell; R.E.B.E.L.S., two separate fictional revolutionary paramilitary groups in the DC Comics Universe; Rebel, a 2019 novel by Marie Lu
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]