Difference between Insubordinate and Rebellious

INSUBORDINATE vs REBELLIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Resisting control or authority
Participating in organized resistance to a constituted government
Discontented as toward authority
Prone to or participating in a rebellion: : insubordinate.
Characterized by or expressing resistance to or defiance of authority or convention.
Resistant to treatment or adjustment.
Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Showing rebellion.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion.

Synonyms Insubordinate, disobedient. See insurgent, n., and insurrection.
Hard to treat or deal with; resisting effort or operation; refractory: applied to things.
Pertaining to or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion; of rebel character, relation, or use.
Acting as a rebel, or having the disposition of one; defying lawful authority; openly disobedient or insubordinate.
Specifically, in metallurgy, difficult to reduce; requiring extra manipulation or extreme heat: said of ores from which it is difficult to separate the metal.

Undisciplined, Discourteous, Arrogant, Disrespectful, Unprofessional, Disloyal, Insidious, Resistant, Resistive, Defiant, Rebellious, Unruly, Mutinous, Contumacious, Disobedient

Badass, Restive, Firebrand, Recalcitrant, Mutinous, Disobedient, Ill affected, Discontent, Malcontent, Disloyal, Insubordinate, Rebel, Discontented, Disaffected, Rebelling

Undisciplined, Discourteous, Arrogant, Disrespectful, Unprofessional, Disloyal, Insidious, Resistant, Resistive, Defiant, Rebellious, Unruly, Mutinous, Contumacious, Disobedient

Insurrectional, Badass, Restive, Firebrand, Recalcitrant, Mutinous, Disobedient, Ill affected, Malcontent, Disloyal, Insubordinate, Rebel, Discontented, Disaffected, Rebelling

Let me tell you how compassionate this agency is with regard to insubordinate judges.
Some thought his attitude bordered on insubordinate and that he should have been arrested.
But society cannot ignore its legitimate concept of justice for such an insubordinate member.
PMAP to do personal work for LCDR Darwin is careless, inappropriate or insubordinate.
If an employee refuses to follow your instructions, that is being insubordinate.
Got damned insubordinate about it, tiny forks of lightning fizzing inside them.
Dismissal of sanitation manfrom county health department for insubordinate speech anddisruptive conduct.
They all said I was an insubordinate or a bad influence.
Zimbardo replied that he was the most rebellious, insubordinate prisoner.
Odd and rude, maybe, but not necessarily insubordinate.

Then why not the commandment regarding rebellious children?
What are the Instructions for Rebellious Hair Dyes?
He will have compassion on His rebellious people.
Fourteen of the rebellious negroes are already executed.
3. Marijuana causes rebellious and anti social behavior.
They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city.
Whereas three thousand rebellious Israelites were killed at Sinai, three thousand rebellious people are brought to bow the knee to Jesus Christ at Pentecost.
Now you, son of man, listen to what I am speaking to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house.
God is able to deal with a rebellious pastor as He is with any other rebellious person.
He was neither covetous nor rebellious; on the contrary, everyone who knew Randy knew him to be very generous and far from rebellious.