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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered |
| Synonyms: | catty, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, dirty*, disagreeable, disobliging, dyspeptic, hot-tempered, ill-humored, irritable, malevolent, malicious, mean, nasty, ornery*, perverse, petulant, spiteful, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, tempersome, touchy, unfriendly, unkind, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insubordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, dissentious, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncomplying, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly |
| Antonyms: | behaved, compliant, obedient |
| Main Entry: | intractable /intransigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, stubborn |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bullheaded, cantankerous, contrary, hang tough, hard-line, headstrong, immovable, incompliant, incurable, indocile, indomitable, insoluble, locked in, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, self-willed, set in stone, tenacious, tough, tough-nut, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpliable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful |
| Antonyms: | amenable, easy, facile, manageable |
| Main Entry: | miscreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, immoral |
| Synonyms: | corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, perverse, rascally, reprehensible, reprobate, unhealthy, unprincipled, vicious, villainous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, moping, mournful, perverse, perversive, sad, saturnine, singing the blues, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, friendly, happy, light-hearted, optimistic, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | naughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, misbehaved |
| Synonyms: | annoying, badly behaved, contrary, disobedient, disorderly, evil, exasperating, fiendish, fractious, froward, headstrong, impish, indecorous, insubordinate, intractable, mischievous, obstreperous, perverse, playful, rascally, raunchy, recalcitrant, refractory, rough, rowdy, sinful, teasing, tough, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wanton, wayward, wicked, willful, worthless, wrong |
| Antonyms: | behaved, controlled, good, obedient |
| Main Entry: | nefarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, sinful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, base, corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, detestable, dreadful, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, glaring, gross, heinous, horrible, infamous, infernal, iniquitous, miscreant, monstrous, odious, opprobrious, outrageous, perverse, putrid, rank, rotten, shameful, treacherous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, respectable, virtuous, worthy |
| Main Entry: | obdurate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pigheaded, stubborn |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bullhead, callous, cold fish, dogged, firm, fixed, hanging tough, hard, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable, indurate, inexorable, inflexible, iron, mean, mulish, obstinate, perverse, relentless, rigid, set in stone, stiff-necked, thick-skinned, tough, tough nut to crack, unbending, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncooperative, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible, unrelenting, unshakable, unsympathetic, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | amenable, gentle, submissive, susceptible, yielding |
| Main Entry: | obstinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn, determined |
| Synonyms: | adamant, cantankerous, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, convinced, dead set on, dogged, dogmatic, firm, hard, hardened, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, locked in, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, opinionative, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, resolved, restive, self-willed, steadfast, strong-minded, tenacious, unalterable, unflinching, unmanageable, unyielding, willful |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, amenable, cooperative, flexible, helpful, submissive, willing, yielding |
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