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recalcitrant
[ri-kal-si-truhnt] 
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recalcitrant
[ri-kal-si-truhnt]
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = 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: | 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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