Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impatient, nervous |
| Synonyms: | agitated, balky, contrary, edgy, fidgety, fractious, fretful, froward, ill at ease, jittery, jumpy, nervy, obstinate, on edge, ornery*, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, restless, stubborn, tense, uneasy, unruly, unyielding, uptight |
| Notes: | restive means impatient or fidgety under pressure or restraint; restless is being uneasy, unquiet, or unable to relax or rest |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, patient, relaxed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gruff, bearish |
| Synonyms: | boorish, brusque, churlish, cross, crusty, curmudgeonly, discourteous, dour, fractious, glum, grouchy, ill-mannered, ill-natured, irritable, morose, perverse, rude, saturnine, sulky, sullen, testy, ugly, uncivil, ungracious |
| Antonyms: | gentle, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | uncontrollable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild; carried away |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, disorderly, excited, fractious, frantic, freaked, furious, headstrong, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, insurgent, intractable, irrepressible, irresistible, lawless, like a loose cannon, mad, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, strong, stubborn, uncontainable, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrestrainable, unruly, violent |
| Antonyms: | controllable, controlled, manageable, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | unruly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient |
| Synonyms: | assertive, bawdy, disorderly, drunken, forward, fractious, headstrong, heedless, impervious, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incorrigible, inexorable, insubordinate, intemperate, intractable, lawless, mean, mutinous, obstreperous, opinionated, ornery, out of control, out of line, perverse, quarrelsome, rash, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unyielding, violent, wayward, wild, willful |
| Antonyms: | compliant, obedient, yielding |
| Main Entry: | untoward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | adverse, annoying, awkward, contrary, disastrous, disturbing, fractious, hapless, ill-starred, inauspicious, inconvenient, indocile, inimical, inopportune, intractable, irritating, luckless, misfortunate, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, star-crossed, undisciplined, unfavorable, unfortunate, ungovernable, unhappy, unlucky, unmanageable, unpliable, unpropitious, unruly, untimely, unyielding, vexatious, wild |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | vulgar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, offensive |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, base, blue*, boorish, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, dirty, disgusting, dishonorable, filthy, fractious, gross*, hard-core, ignoble, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inferior, low, malicious, nasty, naughty, obscene, odious, off-color, profane, raw, repulsive, ribald, risqué, rough, scatological, slippery, smutty, sneaking, soft-core, sordid, suggestive, tasteless, tawdry, uncouth, unmannerly, unrefined, unworthy, villainous |
| Antonyms: | decent, inoffensive, nice, polite, refined |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wayward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contrary, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, arbitrary, balky, capricious, changeable, contumacious, cross-grained, delinquent, disobedient, disorderly, errant, erratic, fickle, flighty, fractious, froward, headstrong, immoral, inconstant, incorrigible, insubordinate, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, ornery*, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self-indulgent, self-willed, stubborn, uncompliant, undependable, ungovernable, unpredictable, unruly, unstable, variable, whimsical, willful |
| Antonyms: | controllable, manageable, obedient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | willful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn, obstinate |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bullheaded, contumacious, determined, dogged, fractious, froward, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, refractory, resolved, self-willed, stiff-necked, uncompromising, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | flexible, willing, yielding |
| Main Entry: | intractable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, fractious, hang tough, hard-line, headstrong, immovable, incompliant, incurable, indocile, indomitable, insoluble, intransigent, locked, locked in, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, tough, tough nut, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpliable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful |
| Notes: | intractable means stubborn or obstinate; intransigent is this, but implies being more intense and refusing to compromise or change |
| Antonyms: | manageable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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