recalcitrant
resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
hard to deal with, manage, or operate.
a recalcitrant person.
Origin of recalcitrant
1synonym study For recalcitrant
Other words for recalcitrant
Other words from recalcitrant
- re·cal·ci·trance, re·cal·ci·tran·cy, noun
- non·re·cal·ci·trance, noun
- non·re·cal·ci·tran·cy, noun
- non·re·cal·ci·trant, adjective
- un·re·cal·ci·trant, adjective
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How to use recalcitrant in a sentence
The partial oil ban is meaningful because it is something where nothing was before, and because getting recalcitrant and pro-Kremlin Hungary to agree to anything is remarkable.
For especially recalcitrant cases, some resort to the elemental diet, a liquid formula of predigested nutrients that gives the digestive tract a break, starving the bacteria or archaea in the process.
If he refuses then the captain is empowered to arrest the recalcitrant persons.
The Philippines’ Duterte has put the unvaccinated on a hard lockdown | Aurora Almendral | January 7, 2022 | QuartzPathological patterns like these typically emerge from a complex constellation of forces that align and feed each other in ways that make them unpredictable and recalcitrant.
Half the U.S. Believes Another Civil War Is Likely. Here Are the 5 Steps We Must Take to Avoid That | Peter T. Coleman | January 6, 2022 | TimeMaterials documenting how to grow the recalcitrant orange fungus were essentially nonexistent in the English language until Padilla-Brown published his first cultivation guide in 2017.
The first hint of the double-toilet-style operations issues came as the recalcitrant fifth Olympic ring refused to open.
Sochi’s Impenetrable, Utterly Russian Opening Ceremony | Kelly Williams Brown | February 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The issue of the recalcitrant National Guards is being worked at very high levels,” he said.
States Seek to Turn Back Clock on Military Gay Couples With Marriage Rights | Hanqing Chen | November 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is ample precedent in history for change being forced upon recalcitrant organizations from the outside.
These willfully ignorant, recalcitrant obstructionists are doing the country a tremendous service.
Red States Respond To Obamacare With Angry Tea-Party Denial | Joe McLean | March 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShame and ostracism are not guaranteed to be effective; like the recalcitrant husband, Israel may indeed dig in.
However, we always hope the next will prove less recalcitrant; in which faith we advance trembling.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonGloria looked around at those who remained recalcitrant and concentrated her gaze on Stevens.
The Onslaught from Rigel | Fletcher PrattIt was from this Ireland of the darkness that the recalcitrant Ireland of the twentieth century arose.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsThese heartening recollections made me forget the loss of Twist, the recalcitrant cow, and the dilemma that confronted me.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail | Ezra MeekerIn most instances the recalcitrant part of the provincial populations prevailed.
British Dictionary definitions for recalcitrant
/ (rɪˈkælsɪtrənt) /
not susceptible to control or authority; refractory
a recalcitrant person
Origin of recalcitrant
1Derived forms of recalcitrant
- recalcitrance, noun
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