Synonyms for Balky:

• adj.

  •contrary (adjective)
  • in subordinate,
  • in-subordinate,
  • more anti,
  • nonconformist,
  • headstrong,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • non conformist,
  • anti-thetical,
  • dis sentient,
  • anti pathetic,
  • head strong,
  • Non-conforming,
  • in consistent,
  • anti thetical,
  • more contrariant,
  • most anti,
  • more recusant,
  • most contrariant,
  • more paradoxical,
  • non conforming,
  • obstinate,
  • re-verse,
  • in-tractable,
  • most recusant,
  • most reverse,
  • in tractable,
  • more clashing,
  • most dissentient,
  • most paradoxical,
  • in-consistent,
  • more wrongheaded,
  • re verse,
  • most wrongheaded,
  • dis-sentient,
  • more reverse,
  • most opposed,
  • most clashing,
  • more dissentient.
  •froward (adjective)
  • in submissive,
  • more insubmissive,
  • most insubmissive,
  • in-submissive,
  • insubmissive.
  •incompliant (adjective)
  • un relenting,
  • muler,
  • un compromising,
  • mulest,
  • most brassbound,
  • un-compromising,
  • in-compliant,
  • in compliant,
  • more brassbound.
  •negative (adjective)
  • Refusing,
  • Privative,
  • unaffirmative,
  • naysaying,
  • unenthusiastic.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • head-strong,
  • mule,
  • unbendable,
  • die hard,
  • self-willed,
  • anti,
  • restive,
  • brassbound,
  • dissentient,
  • singleminded,
  • contrary,
  • Contrariant,
  • cross-grained,
  • negative,
  • recusant,
  • Incompliant,
  • non-conformist,
  • stiff-necked,
  • set in one's ways,
  • uncompliant,
  • paradoxical,
  • Crossgrained,
  • wrongheaded.
  •stubborn (adjective)
  • more stiff necked,
  • self willed,
  • un reasonable,
  • selfwilled,
  • most stiff necked,
  • most selfwilled,
  • set in ways,
  • stiff necked,
  • in-flexible,
  • more selfwilled,
  • single minded,
  • set one's ways,
  • most self-willed,
  • set ways,
  • more stiffnecked,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • stiffnecked,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • un manageable,
  • in flexible,
  • most self willed,
  • un-manageable,
  • more self willed,
  • un bending,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • in-exorable,
  • most cussed,
  • un-reasonable,
  • set one ways,
  • un-bending,
  • set in one ways,
  • more cussed,
  • more self-willed,
  • set in ones ways,
  • un-shakable,
  • most hardheaded,
  • set ones ways.
  •unbendable (adjective)
  • un bendable,
  • un-bendable.
  •uncompliant (adjective)
  • un compliant,
  • un-compliant.
  •uncooperative (adjective)
  • hesitant,
  • loath,
  • reluctant,
  • indisposed,
  • averse.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • squeamish,
  • Resisting,
  • unwilling,
  • defiant,
  • uncooperative,
  • disinclined,
  • unyielding,
  • unhelpful,
  • noncooperative,
  • irreconcilable,
  • non-consenting,
  • uncomplying,
  • unconsenting,
  • opposed.
  •wayward (adjective)
  • dis obedient,
  • in corrigible,
  • dis-orderly,
  • dis orderly,
  • in-corrigible,
  • un predictable,
  • un stablest,
  • most cross-grained,
  • most cross grained,
  • in-constant,
  • most crossgrained,
  • un dependable,
  • dis-obedient,
  • un-governable,
  • un-stabler,
  • more cross-grained,
  • un-dependable,
  • un stable,
  • more crossgrained,
  • un-predictable,
  • self indulgent,
  • selfindulgent,
  • un-stablest,
  • more cross grained,
  • cross grained,
  • un-stable,
  • un stabler.

• n.

  •
  • unmanageable,
  • uncontrollable,
  • lawless,
  • disobedient.
  •
  • support,
  • impossible,
  • difficult,
  • attitude.
  •balky (noun)
  • intractable.
  •contrary (noun)
  • study at contrary.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • perverse,
  • refractory,
  • stubborn,
  • recalcitrant,
  • balking.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • contrarious,
  • ornery.
  •
  • froward,
  • wayward,
  • mutinous.
  •Other relevant words:
  • grisly,
  • overbold,
  • retral,
  • extraneous,
  • transversal,
  • buffet,
  • iron out,
  • inharmonic,
  • bolshy,
  • sanguinary,
  • jolty,
  • foresee,
  • prissy,
  • sticky,
  • yobo,
  • living,
  • practical,
  • digest,
  • depraved,
  • bulletproof,
  • verso,
  • diddle,
  • suffer,
  • moody,
  • bread and butter,
  • solid,
  • hybridise,
  • disconsolate,
  • confounding,
  • cruel,
  • unreliable,
  • cut through,
  • put up,
  • unconformist,
  • feeble,
  • self-opinionated,
  • hash over,
  • state of nature,
  • defend,
  • punk,
  • scrimy,
  • endure,
  • impulsive,
  • juicy,
  • flyaway,
  • bolshevik,
  • freedom fighter,
  • jolting,
  • sour,
  • bunco,
  • neglectful,
  • keep,
  • slacken,
  • overthrow,
  • hard-nosed,
  • arrange,
  • anxious,
  • implike,
  • barbarous,
  • vacate,
  • diligent,
  • ill-chosen,
  • disputatious,
  • poorly,
  • tiresome,
  • dumb,
  • decrepit,
  • pragmatic,
  • haunting,
  • congeal,
  • high-strung,
  • problematic,
  • bilk,
  • head-in-the-clouds,
  • laid,
  • tempestuous,
  • hustle,
  • set up,
  • heterodox,
  • confidence trick,
  • fussy,
  • fast,
  • bully,
  • diamond,
  • boisterous,
  • steady,
  • coiffe,
  • planetary,
  • violent,
  • strong,
  • objector,
  • weakly,
  • cover,
  • washy,
  • toilsome,
  • falter,
  • polar,
  • gruelling,
  • ruffianly,
  • wearisome,
  • solidification,
  • gaga,
  • bad-mannered,
  • raw,
  • hornswoggle,
  • steadfastly,
  • infirm,
  • feebleminded,
  • out of the question,
  • unpitying,
  • prevail,
  • opposite,
  • hold,
  • rust,
  • slow up,
  • repeal,
  • derelict,
  • disadvantageous,
  • pixilated,
  • knotty,
  • grueling,
  • atomic number 26,
  • antipathetical,
  • diverging,
  • physiological reaction,
  • inconceivable,
  • rowdy,
  • readiness,
  • yellow,
  • mutually exclusive,
  • casual,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • behind,
  • prankish,
  • self-contradictory,
  • unregenerated,
  • backwards,
  • electronegative,
  • natural,
  • baseless,
  • criminal,
  • disconfirming,
  • goon,
  • outlaw,
  • roughneck,
  • hardened,
  • cut across,
  • opponent,
  • crisscross,
  • accompaniment,
  • malcontent,
  • chatoyant,
  • real estate,
  • rugged,
  • musical accompaniment,
  • reb,
  • crabby,
  • hybridize,
  • jumbled,
  • financial support,
  • guerrilla,
  • frozen,
  • blackball,
  • substantiate,
  • arise,
  • cranky,
  • drone,
  • badly,
  • deadening,
  • strong-minded,
  • confidence game,
  • slow-witted,
  • interbreeding,
  • mordant,
  • racy,
  • spoilt,
  • ironclad,
  • mercurial,
  • repulsive,
  • typeset,
  • crossing,
  • irreverent,
  • ruthless,
  • plump for,
  • unobliging,
  • downhearted,
  • chaotic,
  • comeback,
  • cumbersome,
  • brook,
  • rejoinder,
  • track,
  • dissonant,
  • easy,
  • indocile,
  • sting,
  • transposed,
  • minus,
  • glooming,
  • convict,
  • fluid,
  • gear up,
  • abide,
  • change by reversal,
  • clumsy,
  • watery,
  • immoveable,
  • coiffure,
  • nice,
  • half-witted,
  • ready,
  • baulker,
  • wicked,
  • curing,
  • insolent,
  • blue,
  • mark,
  • glum,
  • con game,
  • anarchic,
  • faint,
  • stomach,
  • unfriendly,
  • rapscallion,
  • limit,
  • voiceless,
  • risky,
  • unfit,
  • immaterial,
  • sweep,
  • unsure,
  • painstaking,
  • victimize,
  • fit,
  • imperfect,
  • unenviable,
  • diametrical,
  • patronage,
  • pitiless,
  • obtuse,
  • superficial,
  • repellent,
  • lay out,
  • get over,
  • uncomely,
  • ungratified,
  • evil,
  • position,
  • threatening,
  • crazy,
  • nobble,
  • antithetic,
  • orthogonal,
  • punishing,
  • patronize,
  • go down,
  • recession,
  • funding,
  • black eye,
  • turnabout,
  • scuff,
  • span,
  • grumpy,
  • perverted,
  • prejudicious,
  • fresh,
  • reflex response,
  • highly strung,
  • neutral,
  • discrepant,
  • crossbreeding,
  • strict,
  • sulky,
  • deplorable,
  • memorize,
  • cheerless,
  • chapelgoer,
  • rescind,
  • situated,
  • uncertain,
  • dotty,
  • flimflam,
  • negatively charged,
  • unvoiced,
  • press,
  • mulct,
  • furnace lining,
  • lift,
  • reflexive,
  • unfluctuating,
  • placed,
  • drab,
  • peaked,
  • unforgiving,
  • puckish,
  • surd,
  • hardly,
  • irrepressible,
  • overstrung,
  • concentrated,
  • glowering,
  • mutable,
  • protester,
  • short-change,
  • unreformable,
  • interbreed,
  • rampantly,
  • barbaric,
  • underpin,
  • heavy,
  • frustrate,
  • retreat,
  • unmovable,
  • incompatible,
  • overdue,
  • distant,
  • riposte,
  • mental attitude,
  • bounderish,
  • badness,
  • iridescent,
  • lagger,
  • return,
  • down,
  • scam,
  • compulsive,
  • techy,
  • band,
  • specify,
  • veto,
  • disaffected,
  • diametrical opposition,
  • nettlesome,
  • unseemly,
  • reenforcement,
  • tolerate,
  • coherent,
  • unwieldy,
  • stern,
  • untamed,
  • querulous,
  • furious,
  • hesitation,
  • lowbred,
  • corroborate,
  • trailer,
  • keep going,
  • hugger-mugger,
  • regretful,
  • mentally ill,
  • parry,
  • crude,
  • posture,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • deviate,
  • dismal,
  • juvenile delinquent,
  • get across,
  • disharmonious,
  • intersect,
  • spooky,
  • pettish,
  • immobile,
  • unmannered,
  • annul,
  • black,
  • strong-armer,
  • irritable,
  • overturn,
  • stabile,
  • unassailable,
  • hoary,
  • discourse,
  • brash,
  • raring,
  • fix,
  • severe,
  • loyal,
  • obscene,
  • stand,
  • slowly,
  • hard-boiled,
  • resolved,
  • polemic,
  • unwell,
  • spicy,
  • grouchy,
  • reflex action,
  • baffling,
  • reversed,
  • retrogress,
  • sideboard,
  • changeful,
  • subscribe,
  • tense up,
  • regress,
  • remote,
  • deviant,
  • define,
  • subversive,
  • hybrid,
  • decelerate,
  • ungainly,
  • thwartwise,
  • rearwards,
  • bunko,
  • rambunctious,
  • reversion,
  • solidifying,
  • impeding,
  • stage set,
  • yob,
  • prepare,
  • inverse,
  • abhorrent,
  • seth,
  • primitive,
  • poky,
  • shot,
  • scratchy,
  • macabre,
  • hooligan,
  • whiney,
  • knockout,
  • turn,
  • rumbustious,
  • watertight,
  • wise,
  • unswerving,
  • dainty,
  • staunch,
  • pose,
  • aflutter,
  • whiny,
  • fe,
  • gamey,
  • anticipate,
  • queasy,
  • varying,
  • ruffian,
  • heretical,
  • flip,
  • conscientious,
  • innate reflex,
  • boring,
  • sick,
  • house,
  • blow,
  • balky,
  • long,
  • idle,
  • elusive,
  • stiff,
  • jell,
  • instinctive reflex,
  • fantastic,
  • fend for,
  • rearward,
  • correct,
  • scotch,
  • raving mad,
  • precarious,
  • variable star,
  • turnaround,
  • recollective,
  • anarchical,
  • primed,
  • unbiassed,
  • sustain,
  • plant,
  • fructify,
  • counterpunch,
  • arch,
  • freakish,
  • dogmatical,
  • hindering,
  • crabbed,
  • run,
  • springy,
  • variable quantity,
  • excessive,
  • tardily,
  • poisonous,
  • sustenance,
  • yobbo,
  • countersink,
  • smoothing iron,
  • reversal,
  • reprobate,
  • sapless,
  • insurrectionist,
  • balker,
  • damaging,
  • adjust,
  • angry,
  • reactionist,
  • waste,
  • seditious,
  • niggardly,
  • curly-grained,
  • unquiet,
  • determine,
  • laborious,
  • backbreaking,
  • savage,
  • intemperate,
  • rock-ribbed,
  • frail,
  • base,
  • litigious,
  • bouncy,
  • real property,
  • renegade,
  • unsettled,
  • maverick,
  • roughshod,
  • rocky,
  • bullet-headed,
  • seedy,
  • prejudicial,
  • branding iron,
  • marxist,
  • testy,
  • ill-affected,
  • scalawag,
  • lowering,
  • so-so,
  • circle,
  • turn back,
  • rise,
  • ungoverned,
  • cheeky,
  • automatic,
  • queer,
  • under the weather,
  • cursory,
  • uncongenial,
  • uncollectible,
  • shrinkage,
  • place,
  • revoke,
  • slack,
  • goldbrick,
  • bent,
  • livelihood,
  • temperamental,
  • bad-tempered,
  • tolerant,
  • remiss,
  • go under,
  • sturdy,
  • unacceptable,
  • unmannerly,
  • out of practice,
  • knave,
  • morose,
  • hood,
  • illiberal,
  • rust-brown,
  • embarrassing,
  • scatterbrained,
  • scallywag,
  • traverse,
  • lively,
  • inauspicious,
  • localize,
  • sassy,
  • countermand,
  • bunglesome,
  • fanatic,
  • heavily,
  • overnice,
  • pokey,
  • big,
  • bumpy,
  • confirm,
  • live,
  • setback,
  • back up,
  • swindle,
  • dingy,
  • saucy,
  • bear,
  • located,
  • truehearted,
  • dark,
  • tetchy,
  • replication,
  • sickly,
  • uncivilised,
  • timid,
  • street fighter,
  • depressed,
  • underbred,
  • hazardous,
  • reprehensible,
  • neural,
  • torpid,
  • misanthropic,
  • fadeout,
  • far-right,
  • unconsidered,
  • downcast,
  • raging,
  • dispirited,
  • dense,
  • lay,
  • flint,
  • ailing,
  • antsy,
  • unwavering,
  • dull,
  • defective,
  • unreconcilable,
  • unsound,
  • endorse,
  • waver,
  • granitic,
  • shy,
  • dim,
  • condemnable,
  • put,
  • unbiased,
  • affirm,
  • crotchety,
  • dreary,
  • inordinate,
  • wilderness,
  • rickety,
  • strain,
  • wandering,
  • toughened,
  • problematical,
  • wide-open,
  • back,
  • unfounded,
  • uncheerful,
  • rehash,
  • godforsaken,
  • gamy,
  • flinty,
  • down in the mouth,
  • higgledy-piggledy,
  • rabid,
  • memorise,
  • learn,
  • undue,
  • yokelish,
  • hoodlum,
  • rig,
  • spoil,
  • unimaginable,
  • tabulator,
  • forbidding,
  • override,
  • intemperately,
  • peckish,
  • unsatisfied,
  • antipodal opposition,
  • severely,
  • greyback,
  • exercise set,
  • dictated,
  • indorse,
  • irregular,
  • uncorrected,
  • coif,
  • drear,
  • dawdler,
  • ill-tempered,
  • at odds,
  • dour,
  • financial backing,
  • unappeasable,
  • unwarranted,
  • documentation,
  • unalike,
  • indecent,
  • poke,
  • reverse gear,
  • yard bird,
  • bunko game,
  • saturnine,
  • realty,
  • pass over,
  • speculative,
  • unfaltering,
  • kittenish,
  • reinforcement,
  • ghastly,
  • persist,
  • snotty-nosed,
  • patronise,
  • hybridizing,
  • baffle,
  • invert,
  • stick out,
  • sorry,
  • retard,
  • unwaveringly,
  • arduous,
  • risque,
  • backup,
  • groundless,
  • ultraconservative,
  • gloomful,
  • retort,
  • low-spirited,
  • low,
  • bear out,
  • retentive,
  • sic,
  • dissenter,
  • rook,
  • gruesome,
  • unbecoming,
  • combative,
  • deaf,
  • inapt,
  • brutal,
  • slow down,
  • tedious,
  • barbarian,
  • plunk for,
  • unconditioned reflex,
  • fallible,
  • unrepentant,
  • toughie,
  • thug,
  • rascal,
  • high-risk,
  • indecorous,
  • spoiled,
  • rise up,
  • firmly,
  • forged,
  • uncivilized,
  • quicksilver,
  • localise,
  • thwart,
  • contestant,
  • supporting,
  • soggy,
  • sluggish,
  • forestall,
  • smart,
  • hybridisation,
  • rough,
  • hardening,
  • unaccented,
  • dress,
  • lasting,
  • wavy-grained,
  • cast-iron,
  • extreme right-winger,
  • transverse,
  • defraud,
  • foil,
  • backing,
  • ho-hum,
  • lot,
  • hold up,
  • yardbird,
  • stony,
  • varlet,
  • heel counter,
  • tauten,
  • immune,
  • inborn reflex,
  • pert,
  • opinionative,
  • diametral,
  • robustious,
  • impish,
  • crossbreed,
  • crown of thorns,
  • natural state,
  • volatile,
  • inept,
  • light,
  • venomous,
  • overrule,
  • driven,
  • business firm,
  • fell,
  • disputative,
  • inmate,
  • hybridization,
  • red,
  • itchy,
  • detestable,
  • guerilla,
  • misanthropical,
  • passing,
  • uncorrectable,
  • pro forma.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • intolerant,
  • Refluent,
  • dogged,
  • regressive,
  • set,
  • opinionated,
  • dilatory,
  • strong-willed,
  • mulish,
  • loth,
  • pertinacious,
  • Recidivous,
  • wilful,
  • obdurate,
  • immovable,
  • dogmatic,
  • ungovernable,
  • inexorable,
  • laggard,
  • fidgety,
  • bullheaded,
  • Casehardened,
  • inflexible,
  • awkward,
  • unchangeable,
  • unpredictable,
  • backward,
  • apathetic,
  • negativistic,
  • shrinking,
  • reflex,
  • unregenerate,
  • willful,
  • perfunctory,
  • contumacious,
  • receding,
  • Hard-headed,
  • unshakable,
  • crab-like,
  • bigoted,
  • tenacious,
  • retrograde,
  • shy of,
  • determined,
  • bulldogged,
  • reactionary,
  • hardheaded,
  • Demurring,
  • overzealous,
  • inert,
  • retrogressive,
  • pigheaded,
  • persevering,
  • case-hardened,
  • Stickling,
  • slow,
  • diffident,
  • hard,
  • indifferent,
  • sullen,
  • Renitent,
  • Qualmish,
  • fanatical,
  • Boggling,
  • obstreperous,
  • unruly,
  • against the grain,
  • grudging,
  • resilient,
  • scrupulous,
  • Pig-headed,
  • rebel,
  • faltering,
  • unbending,
  • hesitating.

Antonyms for Balky:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    governable, disciplined, courteous, amiable, yielding, slavish, obliging, cooperative, mannerly, passive, orderly, controllable, manageable, obsequious, deferential, respectful, Trainable, kowtowing, quiet, peaceable, subservient, decorous, gentle, manipulable, agreeable, proper, well-bred, polite, servile, ruly.

Homophones for Balky:

• black ash, bilious, blackjack oak, bellyless, blue sky, bellyache, bullocky, bellis, bow legs, balk, blocky, bloc, baulk, blockhouse, bliss, babelike, blueish, by luck, blue joke, blush, bowelless, belly laugh, bulgy, Belloc, bibulous, blaze away, blues, bilk, bowls, Byblos, blockage, belch, black, biologic, baby-like, bulk, bellicose, bollocks, blaze, balzac, black sage, blake, blockish, belize, bibless, bloch, blackcock, bolus, ball cock, blue-lilac, balochi, belike, bligh, baluchi, blighia, blow gas, Bluejack Oak, bleak, Blok, blue goose, Black Hawk, billhook, blahs, blue ash, block, blase, blue cheese, bilge, boulez, black oak, blouse, bullace, bleach, bulky, bailiwick, bloke, bellylaugh, Bela Lugosi, blissus, boylike, bullish, blowsy, bollix, ballock, blue sage, bowleg, bow leg, biology, black sea, bubalus, blue jack, bollock, ballcock, balalaika, blue jay, bubulcus, ball hawk, black cohosh, bowels, bee-like, belgique, blackjack, balas, bullock, bolshie, blackish, blue-sky, balsa, beluga, black cock, blackwash, bilges, blog, bolshy, bellows, blowzy, biloxi, black ice, bless, black eye, bilgy, bluish, black haw, blue cohosh, bulge, baby blue-eyes.