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recalcitrant [ri-kal-si-truhnt]
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recalcitrant [ri-kal-si-truhnt]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disobedient, uncontrollable
Synonyms: contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, resisting, stubborn, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, unwilling, wayward, wild, willful, withstanding
Antonyms: amenable, obedient, passive
Main Entry: contumacious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: headstrong, obstinate
Synonyms: alienated, contrary, disaffected, estranged, factious, froward, haughty, inflexible, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, intransigent, irreconcilable, mutinous, obdurate, perverse, pig-headed, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, seditious, stubborn, unyielding
Antonyms: following, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing
Main Entry: defiant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disobedient, disregardful
Synonyms: aggressive, audacious, bold, challenging, contumacious, daring, gutsy, insolent, insubmissive, insubordinate, mutinous, obstinate, provocative, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, resistant, resistive, sassy*, truculent
Antonyms: acquiescent, obedient, respectful, submissive, submitting, subordinating
Main Entry: disobedient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: defiant, mischievous
Synonyms: contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, nonobservant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistive, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful
Antonyms: accepting, behaving, nice, obedient, observant, submitting
Main Entry: fractious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grouchy, cross
Synonyms: awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indocile, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, scrappy, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uncompliant, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild
Antonyms: agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient
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: mulish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obstinate
Synonyms: adamant, bullheaded, dead set on, dogged, firm, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, inflexible, intractable, obdurate, opinionated, persistent, pigheaded, recalcitrant, relentless, single-minded, steadfast, strong-minded, stubborn, tenacious
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
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