noncompliant

1. 1.

   a person who refuses to comply

   Synonymsbalkerbaulker

   Broaderperson

   Narrowernegativist

1. 1.

   boldly resisting authority or an opposing force

   “brought up to be aggressive and defiant”

   “a defiant attitude”

   Synonymsdefiant

   Similarinsubordinateobstreperousrecalcitrant

Other forms of noncompliant

plural

noncompliants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about noncompliant

What does noncompliant mean?

noncompliant means "a person who refuses to comply". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in noncompliant?

noncompliant has 4 syllables: non-com-pli-ant. The stress falls on "com".

What is another word for noncompliant?

Close synonyms include balker, baulker, defiant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is noncompliant a common word?

noncompliant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.