defiant (adj.)
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- arrogant
- audacious
- belligerent
- bold
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- bumptious
- challenging
- cheeky
- cocky
- contemptuous
- contumacious
- daring
- derisive
- disdainful
- disobedient
- fractious
- gutsy
- headstrong
- hostile
- impertinent
- impudent
- incorrigible
- indocile
- indomitable
- insolent
- insubordinate
- intractable
- irrepressible
- mutinous
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- ornery
- pert
- pugnacious
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resistant
- resisting
- restive
- saucy
- self-willed
- shrewish
- spunky
- stubborn
- uncontrollable
- ungovernable
- unmalleable
- unmanageable
- unruly
- unsubmissive
- unyielding
- wild