Delinquent vs Rebel - What's the difference?
delinquent | rebel |
Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
(obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
As nouns the difference between delinquent and rebel
is that delinquent is one who disobeys or breaks rules or laws while rebel is a person who resists an established authority, often violently.As an adjective delinquent
is late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.As a verb rebel is
to resist or become defiant toward an authority.delinquent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
- The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.