Definition of uncooperative
: marked by an unwillingness or inability to work with others : not cooperative
the suspect was uncooperative with investigators an uncooperative witness … he wonders whether it would be such a bad thing if their uncooperative nanny quit …— Caitlin Flanagan
also
: providing difficulty
struggled with an uncooperative corkscrew uncooperative weather
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The first known use of uncooperative was in 1799
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