noncompliant

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adjective

Not cooperating; rebellious.

“We just need to finish up a couple of things on the project, to make sure nothing's left noncompliant.”

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Meanings

adjectivenoncompliant (comparative more noncompliant, superlative most noncompliant)

comparative more noncompliant · superlative most noncompliant · alternative non-compliant

  1. Not cooperating; rebellious.

    It was directed toward a program, "Tuesday's Child," which endorses systematic, unquestioning rejection by parents of the program-created noncompliant behaviors in their eighteen-month- to five-year-old children.

    1988 January 22, Laya Frischer, “Further Adventures in Tot Control”, in Chicago Reader
  2. engineeringNot complying with certain rules or regulations.

    We just need to finish up a couple of things on the project, to make sure nothing's left noncompliant.

nounnoncompliant (plural noncompliants)

plural noncompliants · alternative non-compliant

  1. One who fails to comply, for example with a law.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveboldly resisting authority or an opposing force

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defiantinsubordinateresistantresistiveobstreperousrecalcitrant

nouna person who refuses to comply

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balkerbaulker
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actordoerworker
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balkerbaulkerdefiantinsubordinateobstreperousrecalcitrantresistantresistive

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From non- + compliant.

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Translations

Bulgarian непослушен, неподчиняващ се
  • непослушен (neposlušen)not compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • неподчиняващ се (nepodčinjavašt se)not compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
German ungehorsam
  • ungehorsamnot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
Māori haututū, tīhoihoi
  • haututūnot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • tīhoihoinot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
Spanish disconforme, desconforme
  • disconformenot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • desconformenot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • incumplidornot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • incumplientenot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • no acatantenot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • poco atenientenot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious
  • nada atenidonot compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

noncompliant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncompliant

MLA

“noncompliant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncompliant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noncompliant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncompliant.

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