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- US Pronunciation
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- [kuh m-plahy-uh nt]
- /kəmˈplaɪ ənt/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [kuh m-plahy-uh nt]
- /kəmˈplaɪ ənt/
Definitions of uncompliant word
- adjective uncompliant complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature. 1
- adjective uncompliant manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers. 1
- adjective uncompliant not compliant or yielding; resisting; stubborn 0
- adjective uncompliant (archaic) incompliant. 0
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Origin of uncompliant
First appearance:
before 1635 One of the 43% oldest English words
First recorded in 1635-45; comply + -ant
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Parts of speech for Uncompliant
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
uncompliant popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
uncompliant usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for uncompliant
adj uncompliant
- adamantine — very hard; unbreakable or unyielding
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- disaffected — discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.
adjective uncompliant
- immalleable — (archaic) Not malleable.
- impliable — (archaic) Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
- indisciplined — Alternative form of undisciplined.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
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