MUTINEERS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

mutineers

noun

plural of mutineer

as in rebels

a person who rises up against authority the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas

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Recent Examples of mutineers Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025 The latter is exactly why the Bounty mutineers and a handful of Tahitians in their party chose to settle here in 1790; so they couldn't be easily invaded by the British Navy. — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023 Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt. — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

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Noun

And the old person who rebels is ridiculous.

— Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.

— Janine di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026

Definition of rebels

Noun

Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.

— Alex Sundby, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Nine American soldiers died and 27 others were injured while fighting a battle against 200 Taliban insurgents in the village of Wanat in Afghanistan’s Waygal Valley.

— USA Today, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Definition of insurgents

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Or was July 4, 1776, for the revolutionaries who founded the US, actually an undistinguished day?

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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