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recalcitrant
Synonyms and Antonyms of recalcitrant
- The manager worried that the recalcitrant employee would try to undermine his authority.
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
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly
- a recalcitrant dog sent to obedience school
out of hand
Synonym Discussion of recalcitrant
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- unruly children
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- ungovernable rage
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- intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump
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- special schools for refractory children
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- acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace
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- a willful disregard for the rights of others
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- a headstrong young cavalry officer
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