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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, engaged in, disposed to, or constituting mutiny. See Synonyms at insubordinate.
  2. adj. Unruly; disaffected: a mutinous child.
  3. adj. Turbulent and uncontrollable: "mutinous passions, and conflicting fears” ( Percy Bysshe Shelley).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Engaged in or disposed to mutiny; resisting or disposed to resist the authority of laws and regulations, especially the articles and regulations of an army or a navy. See mutiny.
  2. Seditious.
  3. Rebellious; petulant; mischievous. Synonyms Refractory, insubordinate, riotous, rebellious. See insurrection.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Likely to commit mutiny.
  2. adj. Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny
  2. adj. disposed to or in a state of mutiny

Etymologies

  1. From obsolete mutine, mutiny; see mutiny.

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