Meaning & use

Incompliant

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Not willing to comply with rules, requests, or standards; not compliant.

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The factory was fined for remaining incompliant with new safety regulations.

Her incompliant attitude frustrated the committee trying to reach a consensus.

A note on using this word

Largely interchangeable with the more common 'noncompliant,' though 'incompliant' appears somewhat more often in older or British texts.

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compliantobedient

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