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mutinous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmjuːtɪnəs/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Likely to commit mutiny.
    • [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […] 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 11, recto:
    • “My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. 1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus
    • I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […] 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 16, column 2:
  2. Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most mutinous Degree=Sup lexicographic
more mutinous Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

mutinousness · nonmutinous · mutinously · unmutinous

Synonyms

rebellious · insubordinate

Translations (14)

es sedicioso (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · fr mutin (likely to commit mutiny) · bg разми́рен (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · de in Meuterstimmung befindlich (likely to commit mutiny) · pt sedicioso (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · fi kapinahenkinen (likely to commit mutiny) · fi kapina- (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · de meuterisch (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · pl buntowniczy (likely to commit mutiny) · de meuternd (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · de zum Meutern aufgelegt (likely to commit mutiny) · la sēditiōsus (of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny) · am አድመኛ (likely to commit mutiny) · fr séditieux (likely to commit mutiny)