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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | refractory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | disobedient, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, unmanageable, unruly, willful |
| Main Entry: | bullheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | headstrong, obstinate, pigheaded |
| Antonyms: | easy-going |
| Main Entry: | refractory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obstinate |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded, cantankerous, contrary, difficult, disobedient, headstrong, incorrigible, intractable, opinionated, perverse, rebellious, stubborn, ungovernable, unmanageable, unresponsive, unruly, unyielding, willful |
| Antonyms: | manageable, obedient |
| Main Entry: | pertinacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bullheaded |
| Synonyms: | determined, dogged, firm, headstrong, inflexible, obstinate, persistent, resolute, stubborn, tenacious, unshakable |
| Antonyms: | irresolute, tentative |
| Main Entry: | froward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ornery |
| Synonyms: | adverse, balky, contrary, cross, disobedient, headstrong, insubmissive, obstinate, peevish, perverse, petulant, refractory, stubborn, unfavorable, untoward, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | strong-willed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | determined |
| Synonyms: | decisive, headstrong, iron-willed, mullish, obstinate, resolute, strong-minded, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | spineless, weak, weak-willed |
| Main Entry: | ill-considered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rash |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, audacious, bold, brash, daring, determined, devil-may-care, fiery, foolhardy, frenzied, furious, harebrained, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, headstrong, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, immature, impetuous, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insuppressible, irrational, jumping to conclusions, madcap, overhasty, passionate, precipitant, precipitate, premature, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, thoughtless, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, venturesome, venturous, wild |
| Main Entry: | incompliant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | adamant, adamantine, balky, brassbound, bullheaded, cantankerous, contumacious, cussed, determined, die-hard, dogged, firm, fixed, grim, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, insubordinate, intractable, intransigent, iron, mule, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ornery*, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, remorseless, rigid, self-willed, set in one's ways, single-minded, steadfast, stiff-necked, tenacious, tough*, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unmanageable, unreasonable, unrelenting, unshakable, untoward, unyielding, willful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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