What is another word for balky?
1058 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bˈɔːlki], [ bˈɔːlki], [ b_ˈɔː_l_k_i]
"Balky" is an adjective used to describe something or someone that is uncooperative, refusing to move or work as intended. There are many synonyms for "balky" that can be used to describe the same state of non-compliance. Some of the most commonly used synonyms include stubborn, obstinate, refractory, recalcitrant, and intransigent. Other synonyms that can be used to describe balky behavior include resistant, unyielding, disobedient, unmanageable, and defiant. Essentially, any word that conveys a sense of reluctance or opposition to following through with a particular action or behavior can be used as a synonym for "balky".
Synonyms for Balky:
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adj.
• froward • negative • unwilling- Resisting ,
- averse ,
- defiant ,
- disinclined ,
- hesitant ,
- indisposed ,
- irreconcilable ,
- loath ,
- non-consenting ,
- noncooperative ,
- obstinate ,
- opposed ,
- recalcitrant ,
- reluctant ,
- squeamish ,
- stubborn ,
- uncomplying ,
- unconsenting ,
- uncooperative ,
- unhelpful ,
- unwilling ,
- unyielding .
- Non-conforming ,
- anti pathetic ,
- anti thetical ,
- anti-pathetic ,
- anti-thetical ,
- dis sentient ,
- dis-sentient ,
- head strong ,
- in consistent ,
- in subordinate ,
- in tractable ,
- in-consistent ,
- in-subordinate ,
- in-tractable ,
- more anti ,
- more clashing ,
- more contrariant ,
- more dissentient ,
- more paradoxical ,
- more recusant ,
- more reverse ,
- more wrongheaded ,
- most anti ,
- most clashing ,
- most contrariant ,
- most dissentient ,
- most opposed ,
- most paradoxical ,
- most recusant ,
- most reverse ,
- most wrongheaded ,
- non conforming ,
- non conformist ,
- nonconformist ,
- re verse ,
- re-verse .
- in compliant ,
- in-compliant ,
- more brassbound ,
- most brassbound ,
- muler ,
- mulest ,
- un compromising ,
- un relenting ,
- un-compromising .
- in flexible ,
- in-exorable ,
- in-flexible ,
- more cussed ,
- more self willed ,
- more self-willed ,
- more selfwilled ,
- more stiff necked ,
- more stiff-necked ,
- more stiffnecked ,
- most cussed ,
- most hardheaded ,
- most self willed ,
- most self-willed ,
- most selfwilled ,
- most stiff necked ,
- most stiff-necked ,
- most stiffnecked ,
- self willed ,
- selfwilled ,
- set in one ways ,
- set in ones ways ,
- set in ways ,
- set one ways ,
- set one's ways ,
- set ones ways ,
- set ways ,
- single minded ,
- stiff necked ,
- stiffnecked ,
- un bending ,
- un manageable ,
- un reasonable ,
- un-bending ,
- un-manageable ,
- un-reasonable ,
- un-shakable .
- cross grained ,
- dis obedient ,
- dis orderly ,
- dis-obedient ,
- dis-orderly ,
- in corrigible ,
- in-constant ,
- in-corrigible ,
- more cross grained ,
- more cross-grained ,
- more crossgrained ,
- most cross grained ,
- most cross-grained ,
- most crossgrained ,
- self indulgent ,
- selfindulgent ,
- un dependable ,
- un predictable ,
- un stable ,
- un stabler ,
- un stablest ,
- un-dependable ,
- un-governable ,
- un-predictable ,
- un-stable ,
- un-stabler ,
- un-stablest .
Other synonyms:
- contrarious ,
- ornery .
- perverse .
- difficult ,
- impossible .
Other relevant words:
- abhorrent ,
- abide ,
- accompaniment ,
- adjust ,
- affirm ,
- aflutter ,
- ailing ,
- anarchic ,
- anarchical ,
- angry ,
- annul ,
- anticipate ,
- antipathetical ,
- antipodal opposition ,
- antithetic ,
- antsy ,
- anxious ,
- arch ,
- arduous ,
- arise ,
- arrange ,
- at odds ,
- atomic number 26 ,
- automatic ,
- back ,
- back up ,
- backbreaking ,
- backing ,
- backup ,
- backwards ,
- bad-mannered ,
- bad-tempered ,
- badly ,
- badness ,
- baffle ,
- baffling ,
- balker ,
- balky ,
- band ,
- barbarian ,
- barbaric ,
- barbarous ,
- base ,
- baseless ,
- baulker ,
- bear ,
- bear out ,
- behind ,
- bent ,
- big ,
- bilk ,
- black ,
- black eye ,
- blackball ,
- bloodthirsty ,
- blow ,
- blue ,
- boisterous ,
- bolshevik ,
- bolshy ,
- boring ,
- bouncy ,
- bounderish ,
- branding iron ,
- brash ,
- bread and butter ,
- brook ,
- brutal ,
- buffet ,
- bullet-headed ,
- bulletproof ,
- bully ,
- bumpy ,
- bunco ,
- bunglesome ,
- bunko ,
- bunko game ,
- business firm ,
- cast-iron ,
- casual ,
- change by reversal ,
- changeful ,
- chaotic ,
- chapelgoer ,
- chatoyant ,
- cheeky ,
- cheerless ,
- circle ,
- clumsy ,
- coherent ,
- coif ,
- coiffe ,
- coiffure ,
- combative ,
- comeback ,
- compulsive ,
- con game ,
- concentrated ,
- condemnable ,
- confidence game ,
- confidence trick ,
- confirm ,
- confounding ,
- congeal ,
- conscientious ,
- contestant ,
- convict ,
- correct ,
- corroborate ,
- countermand ,
- counterpunch ,
- countersink ,
- cover ,
- crabbed ,
- crabby ,
- cranky ,
- crazy ,
- criminal ,
- crisscross ,
- crossbreed ,
- crossbreeding ,
- crossing ,
- crotchety ,
- crown of thorns ,
- crude ,
- cruel ,
- cumbersome ,
- curing ,
- curly-grained ,
- cursory ,
- cut across ,
- cut through ,
- dainty ,
- damaging ,
- dark ,
- dawdler ,
- deadening ,
- deaf ,
- decelerate ,
- decrepit ,
- defective ,
- defend ,
- define ,
- defraud ,
- dense ,
- deplorable ,
- depraved ,
- depressed ,
- derelict ,
- determine ,
- detestable ,
- deviant ,
- deviate ,
- diametral ,
- diametrical ,
- diametrical opposition ,
- diamond ,
- dictated ,
- diddle ,
- digest ,
- diligent ,
- dim ,
- dingy ,
- disadvantageous ,
- disaffected ,
- disconfirming ,
- disconsolate ,
- discourse ,
- discrepant ,
- disharmonious ,
- dismal ,
- dispirited ,
- disputatious ,
- disputative ,
- dissenter ,
- dissonant ,
- distant ,
- diverging ,
- documentation ,
- dogmatical ,
- dotty ,
- dour ,
- down ,
- down in the mouth ,
- downcast ,
- downhearted ,
- drab ,
- drear ,
- dreary ,
- dress ,
- driven ,
- drone ,
- dull ,
- dumb ,
- easy ,
- electronegative ,
- elusive ,
- embarrassing ,
- endorse ,
- endure ,
- evil ,
- excessive ,
- exercise set ,
- extraneous ,
- extreme right-winger ,
- fadeout ,
- faint ,
- fallible ,
- falter ,
- fanatic ,
- fantastic ,
- far-right ,
- fast ,
- fe ,
- feeble ,
- feebleminded ,
- fell ,
- fend for ,
- financial backing ,
- financial support ,
- firmly ,
- fit ,
- fix ,
- flimflam ,
- flint ,
- flinty ,
- flip ,
- fluid ,
- flyaway ,
- foil ,
- forbidding ,
- foresee ,
- forestall ,
- forged ,
- frail ,
- freakish ,
- freedom fighter ,
- fresh ,
- frozen ,
- fructify ,
- frustrate ,
- funding ,
- furious ,
- furnace lining ,
- fussy ,
- gaga ,
- gamey ,
- gamy ,
- gear up ,
- get across ,
- get over ,
- ghastly ,
- gloomful ,
- glooming ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- go down ,
- go under ,
- godforsaken ,
- goldbrick ,
- goon ,
- granitic ,
- greyback ,
- grisly ,
- grouchy ,
- groundless ,
- grueling ,
- gruelling ,
- gruesome ,
- grumpy ,
- guerilla ,
- guerrilla ,
- half-witted ,
- hard-boiled ,
- hard-nosed ,
- hardened ,
- hardening ,
- hardly ,
- hash over ,
- haunting ,
- hazardous ,
- head-in-the-clouds ,
- heavily ,
- heavy ,
- heel counter ,
- heretical ,
- hesitation ,
- heterodox ,
- higgledy-piggledy ,
- high-risk ,
- high-strung ,
- highly strung ,
- hindering ,
- ho-hum ,
- hoary ,
- hold ,
- hold up ,
- hood ,
- hoodlum ,
- hooligan ,
- hornswoggle ,
- house ,
- hugger-mugger ,
- hustle ,
- hybrid ,
- hybridisation ,
- hybridise ,
- hybridization ,
- hybridize ,
- hybridizing ,
- idle ,
- ill-affected ,
- ill-chosen ,
- ill-tempered ,
- illiberal ,
- immaterial ,
- immobile ,
- immoveable ,
- immune ,
- impeding ,
- imperfect ,
- impish ,
- implike ,
- impulsive ,
- inapt ,
- inauspicious ,
- inborn reflex ,
- incompatible ,
- inconceivable ,
- indecent ,
- indecorous ,
- indocile ,
- indorse ,
- inept ,
- infirm ,
- inharmonic ,
- inmate ,
- innate reflex ,
- inordinate ,
- insolent ,
- instinctive reflex ,
- insurrectionist ,
- intemperate ,
- intemperately ,
- interbreed ,
- interbreeding ,
- intersect ,
- inverse ,
- invert ,
- iridescent ,
- iron out ,
- ironclad ,
- irregular ,
- irrepressible ,
- irreverent ,
- irritable ,
- itchy ,
- jell ,
- jolting ,
- jolty ,
- juicy ,
- jumbled ,
- juvenile delinquent ,
- keep ,
- keep going ,
- kittenish ,
- knave ,
- knockout ,
- knotty ,
- laborious ,
- lagger ,
- laid ,
- lasting ,
- lay ,
- lay out ,
- learn ,
- lift ,
- light ,
- limit ,
- litigious ,
- live ,
- livelihood ,
- lively ,
- living ,
- localise ,
- localize ,
- located ,
- long ,
- lot ,
- low ,
- low-spirited ,
- lowbred ,
- lowering ,
- loyal ,
- macabre ,
- malcontent ,
- mark ,
- marxist ,
- maverick ,
- memorise ,
- memorize ,
- mental attitude ,
- mentally ill ,
- mercurial ,
- minus ,
- misanthropic ,
- misanthropical ,
- moody ,
- mordant ,
- morose ,
- mulct ,
- musical accompaniment ,
- mutable ,
- mutually exclusive ,
- natural ,
- natural state ,
- negatively charged ,
- neglectful ,
- nettlesome ,
- neural ,
- neutral ,
- nice ,
- niggardly ,
- nobble ,
- objector ,
- obscene ,
- obtuse ,
- opinionative ,
- opponent ,
- opposite ,
- orthogonal ,
- out of practice ,
- out of the question ,
- outlaw ,
- overbold ,
- overdue ,
- overnice ,
- override ,
- overrule ,
- overstrung ,
- overthrow ,
- overturn ,
- painstaking ,
- parry ,
- pass over ,
- passing ,
- patronage ,
- patronise ,
- patronize ,
- peaked ,
- peckish ,
- persist ,
- pert ,
- perverted ,
- pettish ,
- physiological reaction ,
- pitiless ,
- pixilated ,
- place ,
- placed ,
- planetary ,
- plant ,
- plump for ,
- plunk for ,
- poisonous ,
- poke ,
- pokey ,
- poky ,
- polar ,
- polemic ,
- poorly ,
- pose ,
- position ,
- posture ,
- practical ,
- pragmatic ,
- prankish ,
- precarious ,
- prejudicial ,
- prejudicious ,
- prepare ,
- press ,
- prevail ,
- primed ,
- primitive ,
- prissy ,
- pro forma ,
- problematic ,
- problematical ,
- protester ,
- puckish ,
- punishing ,
- punk ,
- put ,
- put up ,
- queasy ,
- queer ,
- querulous ,
- quicksilver ,
- rabid ,
- racy ,
- raging ,
- rambunctious ,
- rampantly ,
- rapscallion ,
- raring ,
- rascal ,
- raving mad ,
- raw ,
- reactionist ,
- readiness ,
- ready ,
- real estate ,
- real property ,
- realty ,
- rearward ,
- rearwards ,
- reb ,
- recession ,
- recollective ,
- red ,
- reenforcement ,
- reflex action ,
- reflex response ,
- reflexive ,
- regress ,
- regretful ,
- rehash ,
- reinforcement ,
- rejoinder ,
- remiss ,
- remote ,
- renegade ,
- repeal ,
- repellent ,
- replication ,
- reprehensible ,
- reprobate ,
- repulsive ,
- rescind ,
- resolved ,
- retard ,
- retentive ,
- retort ,
- retral ,
- retreat ,
- retrogress ,
- return ,
- reversal ,
- reverse gear ,
- reversed ,
- reversion ,
- revoke ,
- rickety ,
- rig ,
- riposte ,
- rise ,
- rise up ,
- risky ,
- risque ,
- robustious ,
- rock-ribbed ,
- rocky ,
- rook ,
- rough ,
- roughneck ,
- roughshod ,
- rowdy ,
- ruffian ,
- ruffianly ,
- rugged ,
- rumbustious ,
- run ,
- rust ,
- rust-brown ,
- ruthless ,
- sanguinary ,
- sapless ,
- sassy ,
- saturnine ,
- saucy ,
- savage ,
- scalawag ,
- scallywag ,
- scam ,
- scatterbrained ,
- scotch ,
- scratchy ,
- scrimy ,
- scuff ,
- seditious ,
- seedy ,
- self-contradictory ,
- self-opinionated ,
- set up ,
- setback ,
- seth ,
- severe ,
- severely ,
- short-change ,
- shot ,
- shrinkage ,
- shy ,
- sic ,
- sick ,
- sickly ,
- sideboard ,
- situated ,
- slack ,
- slacken ,
- slow down ,
- slow up ,
- slow-witted ,
- slowly ,
- sluggish ,
- smart ,
- smoothing iron ,
- snotty-nosed ,
- so-so ,
- soggy ,
- solid ,
- solidification ,
- solidifying ,
- sorry ,
- sour ,
- span ,
- specify ,
- speculative ,
- spicy ,
- spoil ,
- spoiled ,
- spoilt ,
- spooky ,
- springy ,
- stabile ,
- stage set ,
- stand ,
- state of nature ,
- staunch ,
- steadfastly ,
- steady ,
- stern ,
- stick out ,
- sticky ,
- stiff ,
- sting ,
- stomach ,
- stony ,
- strain ,
- street fighter ,
- strict ,
- strong ,
- strong-armer ,
- strong-minded ,
- sturdy ,
- subscribe ,
- substantiate ,
- subversive ,
- suffer ,
- sulky ,
- superficial ,
- supporting ,
- surd ,
- sustain ,
- sustenance ,
- sweep ,
- swindle ,
- tabulator ,
- tardily ,
- tauten ,
- techy ,
- tedious ,
- temperamental ,
- tempestuous ,
- tense up ,
- testy ,
- tetchy ,
- threatening ,
- thug ,
- thwart ,
- thwartwise ,
- timid ,
- tiresome ,
- toilsome ,
- tolerant ,
- tolerate ,
- topsy-turvy ,
- torpid ,
- toughened ,
- toughie ,
- track ,
- trailer ,
- transposed ,
- transversal ,
- transverse ,
- traverse ,
- truehearted ,
- turn ,
- turn back ,
- turnabout ,
- turnaround ,
- typeset ,
- ultraconservative ,
- unaccented ,
- unacceptable ,
- unalike ,
- unappeasable ,
- unassailable ,
- unbecoming ,
- unbiased ,
- unbiassed ,
- uncertain ,
- uncheerful ,
- uncivilised ,
- uncivilized ,
- uncollectible ,
- uncomely ,
- unconditioned reflex ,
- unconformist ,
- uncongenial ,
- unconsidered ,
- uncorrectable ,
- uncorrected ,
- under the weather ,
- underbred ,
- underpin ,
- undue ,
- unenviable ,
- unfaltering ,
- unfit ,
- unfluctuating ,
- unforgiving ,
- unfounded ,
- unfriendly ,
- ungainly ,
- ungoverned ,
- ungratified ,
- unimaginable ,
- unmannered ,
- unmannerly ,
- unmovable ,
- unobliging ,
- unpitying ,
- unquiet ,
- unreconcilable ,
- unreformable ,
- unregenerated ,
- unreliable ,
- unrepentant ,
- unsatisfied ,
- unseemly ,
- unsettled ,
- unsound ,
- unsure ,
- unswerving ,
- untamed ,
- unvoiced ,
- unwarranted ,
- unwavering ,
- unwaveringly ,
- unwell ,
- unwieldy ,
- vacate ,
- variable quantity ,
- variable star ,
- varlet ,
- varying ,
- venomous ,
- verso ,
- veto ,
- victimize ,
- violent ,
- voiceless ,
- volatile ,
- wandering ,
- washy ,
- waste ,
- watertight ,
- watery ,
- waver ,
- wavy-grained ,
- weakly ,
- wearisome ,
- whiney ,
- whiny ,
- wicked ,
- wide-open ,
- wilderness ,
- wise ,
- yard bird ,
- yardbird ,
- yellow ,
- yob ,
- yobbo ,
- yobo ,
- yokelish .
- Boggling ,
- Casehardened ,
- Demurring ,
- Hard-headed ,
- Incompliant ,
- Pig-headed ,
- Qualmish ,
- Recidivous ,
- Refluent ,
- Renitent ,
- Stickling ,
- against the grain ,
- apathetic ,
- awkward ,
- backward ,
- balking ,
- bigoted ,
- bulldogged ,
- bullheaded ,
- case-hardened ,
- contumacious ,
- crab-like ,
- determined ,
- diffident ,
- dilatory ,
- disobedient ,
- dogged ,
- dogmatic ,
- faltering ,
- fanatical ,
- fidgety ,
- grudging ,
- hard ,
- hardheaded ,
- headstrong ,
- hesitating ,
- immovable ,
- indifferent ,
- inert ,
- inexorable ,
- inflexible ,
- intolerant ,
- intractable ,
- laggard ,
- loth ,
- mulish ,
- negative ,
- negativistic ,
- obdurate ,
- obstreperous ,
- opinionated ,
- overzealous ,
- perfunctory ,
- persevering ,
- pertinacious ,
- pigheaded ,
- reactionary ,
- rebel ,
- receding ,
- reflex ,
- refractory ,
- regressive ,
- resilient ,
- restive ,
- retrograde ,
- retrogressive ,
- scrupulous ,
- self-willed ,
- set ,
- shrinking ,
- shy of ,
- slow ,
- stiff-necked ,
- strong-willed ,
- sullen ,
- tenacious ,
- unbending ,
- unchangeable ,
- uncompliant ,
- unenthusiastic ,
- ungovernable ,
- unpredictable ,
- unregenerate ,
- unruly ,
- unshakable ,
- wilful ,
- willful ,
- wrongheaded .
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How to use "Balky" in context?
Balky is a term that is used to describe something or someone that is difficult to move or control. The word is derived from the Dutch word balen, which means to drag or to weigh down. This word is often used to describe something that is difficult to move or turn, or that is not working properly. Examples of things that can be described as being balky include a car, a horse, or an appliance.
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