refractory

Synonyms

balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful);

Antonyms

amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly, submissive, tractable;

Near Antonyms

acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging;

yielding;

behaved, disciplined, well-bred;

courteous, polite, respectful;

kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient;

decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper;

controllable, governable, manageable, trainable;

Related Words

noncooperative, uncooperative;

insurgent, mutinous;

adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding;

fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild;

perverse, resistant, wrongheaded;

bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty;

undisciplined;

discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly;