Synonyms of mutineer

mutineer

noun

ˌmyü-tə-ˈnir 

as in rebel

a person who rises up against authority

the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebel
• insurgent
• revolutionary
• revolter
• revolutionist
• red
• insurrectionist
• insurrectionary
• challenger
• recusant
• anarchist
• resister
• insubordinate
• resistant
• oppositionist
• discontent
• defier
• extremist
• anarch
• radical
• refuser
• malcontent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• patriot
• loyalist
• supporter
• counterrevolutionary
• counterinsurgent
• counterrevolutionist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mutineer

Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

Few among the bureaucratic, business, and even military elites denounced the mutineers, exposing limited support for Putin. — Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025

The mutineers requested political asylum but instead were imprisoned by the Cambodian government. — Roberto Loiederman, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025

The games remain incomplete, and may in fact remain that way depending on what the Front Man decides to do with Gi-hun and all of the other mutineers. — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025