Definition of Contumacious

Con`tu`ma´cious   Pronunciation: kǒn`tũ`mā´shŭs
a.1.Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.
2.(Law) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.


Related Words

alienated, beyond control, breachy, contrary, defiant, disaffected, estranged, factious, fractious, froward, impatient of control, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, insurgent, intractable, irreconcilable, irrepressible, obstreperous, ornery, out of hand, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting, restive, seditious, shrewish, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, wild


Search

Word:

Browse

Controllable
Controllableness
Controller
Controllership
Controlment
Controversal
Controversary
Controverse
Controverser
Controversial
Controversialist
Controversially
Controversion
Controversor
Controversy
Controvert
Controverter
Controvertible
Controvertist
Contubernal
Contumacy
Contumelious
Contumely
Contuse
contused
Contused wound
Contusion
Conundrum
Conure
Conus
Conusable
Conusant
Conusor
Convalesce
Convalesced
Convalescence
Convalescent
Convalescently
Convallamarin
Convallaria
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
© 2008 Interapple, Inc.Cover