MUTINOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutinous mean? 

• MUTINOUS (adjective)
  The adjective MUTINOUS has 2 senses:

1. disposed to or in a state of mutiny

2. consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny

  Familiarity information: MUTINOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTINOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposed to or in a state of mutiny

Context example:

the men became mutinous and insubordinate

Similar:

insubordinate (not submissive to authority)

Derivation:

mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny

Context example:

a mutinous speech

Similar:

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

 Context examples 

So gaunt were these poor folk, so worn and spent—with bent and knotted frames, and sullen, hopeless, mutinous faces—that it made the young Englishman heart-sick to look upon them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet it was the single man who appealed confidently to force, whilst the huge multitude swayed and murmured like a mutinous fierce-willed creature brought face to face with a power against which it knew that there was neither argument nor resistance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)