noncompliant

/ˌnɑnkəmˈplɑɪənt/

Other forms: noncompliants

To be noncompliant is to be defiant and resistant to authority.

When someone is compliant, they go along with what others — especially people in authority — want them to do. When someone is noncompliant, they resist authority. A child refusing to do homework or chores is being noncompliant. A citizen ignoring a police officer's request is being noncompliant. An actor telling a director to get lost is being noncompliant. Sometimes it’s good to be noncompliant, like when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus.

Definitions of noncompliant

1. adjective

   boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
   synonyms: defiant

   insubordinate, resistant, resistive, rogue

   disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

   obstreperous

   noisily and stubbornly defiant

   recalcitrant

   marked by stubborn resistance to authority

   difficult, unbiddable, unmanageable

   hard to control

   disobedient

   not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority

   insubordinate

   not submissive to authority

   intractable

   not tractable; difficult to manage or mold

   unwilling

   not disposed or inclined toward
2. noun

   a person who refuses to comply
   synonyms: balker, baulker

   types:

   negativist

   someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being