noncompliant

English

Alternative forms

• non-compliant

Etymology

non- +‎ compliant

Adjective

noncompliant (comparative more noncompliant, superlative most noncompliant)

1. Not cooperating; rebellious.
   • 1988 January 22, Laya Frischer, “Further Adventures in Tot Control”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (technical) Not 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.

Translations

not compliant, wayward, insubordinate, rebellious

• Bulgarian: непослушен (bg) (neposlušen), неподчиняващ се (nepodčinjavašt se)
• German: ungehorsam (de)
• Maori: haututū, tīhoihoi

Noun

noncompliant (plural noncompliants)

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