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mutinous

/ˈmjuːtɪnəs/

mutinous adjective: likely to commit mutiny.

Adjective

mutinous (comparative more mutinous, superlative most mutinous)

  1. Likely to commit mutiny.
    • [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
    • I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.

mutinous meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

mutinous in Urdu

باغیانہ, سرکشانہ

mutinous in Malayalam

കല്പന ധിക്കരിക്കുന്ന, എതിർക്കുന്ന

mutinous in Kannada

ದಂಗೆಯೇಳುವ, ಬಂಡುಕೋರ, ಬಂಡಾಯ ಮಾಡುವ

Synonyms of mutinous

Forms of mutinous

comparativemore mutinous
superlativemost mutinous

Words formed from mutinous

Questions about mutinous

What does mutinous mean?
Mutinous means likely to commit mutiny.
What is mutinous in Urdu?
Mutinous in Urdu is باغیانہ, سرکشانہ. See Mutinous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mutinous?
Mutinous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce mutinous?
Mutinous is pronounced /ˈmjuːtɪnəs/.

Words near mutinous in the dictionary

  1. mutining
  2. mutinize
  3. mutinized
  4. mutinizes
  5. mutinizing
  6. mutinous
  7. mutinously
  8. mutinousness
  9. mutiny
  10. mutinying
  11. mutinyings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mutinous (page history and authors); mutinous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mutinous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mutinous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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