Synonyms for Recalcitrant:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • recalcitrant.
  •contrary (adjective)
  • anti-pathetic,
  • more dissentient,
  • Non-conforming,
  • in-consistent,
  • most paradoxical,
  • anti thetical,
  • dis sentient,
  • more contrariant,
  • most opposed,
  • most reverse,
  • in consistent,
  • most recusant,
  • non conforming,
  • most clashing,
  • most wrongheaded,
  • more paradoxical,
  • re verse,
  • more clashing,
  • non conformist,
  • more wrongheaded,
  • more reverse,
  • re-verse,
  • anti-thetical,
  • more recusant,
  • dis-sentient,
  • head strong,
  • most anti,
  • most dissentient,
  • most contrariant,
  • anti pathetic,
  • more anti.
  •contumacious (adjective)
  • insurgent.
  •defiant (adjective)
  • bold,
  • daring,
  • audacious,
  • factious,
  • reckless,
  • challenging,
  • confrontational,
  • insolent,
  • insubmissive.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • mischievous,
  • treasonous,
  • Disobeying,
  • traitorous,
  • seditious,
  • Disregardful,
  • disloyal,
  • subversive,
  • out of control,
  • Misbehaving,
  • treacherous.
  •disobedient, uncontrollable (adjective)
  • undisciplinable.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • huffy,
  • pettish,
  • snappish.
  •incompliant (adjective)
  • in-compliant,
  • mulest,
  • most brassbound,
  • more brassbound,
  • un relenting,
  • in compliant,
  • muler.
  •indocile (adjective)
  • in-docile,
  • in docile.
  •insubordinate (adjective)
  • in-subordinate,
  • in subordinate,
  • most dissentious,
  • un-governable,
  • un-complying,
  • un governable,
  • most uncomplying,
  • more uncomplying,
  • more dissentious,
  • un complying.
  •intractable (adjective)
  • in tractable,
  • most bull headed,
  • more bull headed,
  • in-tractable,
  • most bull-headed,
  • bull headed,
  • more bull-headed.
  •intractable /intransigent (adjective)
  • more self willed,
  • most intransigent,
  • in soluble,
  • more tough-nut,
  • selfwilled,
  • more toughnut,
  • most self willed,
  • un-pliablest,
  • more self-willed,
  • un-pliable,
  • un bending,
  • most tough nut,
  • set stone,
  • un cooperative,
  • hardline,
  • in-soluble,
  • unpliabler,
  • in-curable,
  • unpliablest,
  • un-compromising,
  • re solute,
  • un pliabler,
  • un pliablest,
  • un-pliabler,
  • more selfwilled,
  • un-bending,
  • un compromising,
  • most tough-nut,
  • un-cooperative,
  • most toughnut,
  • re-solute,
  • most self-willed,
  • most selfwilled,
  • self willed,
  • toughnut,
  • more tough nut,
  • in curable,
  • un pliable.
  •mulish (adjective)
  • more strong-minded,
  • more strongminded,
  • strong minded,
  • most strong-minded,
  • opinionated,
  • most hardheaded,
  • strongminded,
  • most strong minded,
  • hardheaded,
  • single minded,
  • most strongminded,
  • more strong minded.
  •naughty (adjective)
  • teasing,
  • impish,
  • in decorous,
  • most rascally,
  • most exasperating,
  • more rascally,
  • in-decorous,
  • ex-asperating,
  • ex asperating,
  • more exasperating.
  •noncompliant (adjective)
  • Refusing,
  • non-compliant,
  • Declinatory.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • opinionative,
  • unregenerate.
  •pig-headed (adjective)
  • pig headed.
  •radical (adjective)
  • more leftist,
  • more freethinking,
  • most insurrectionary,
  • more ultraist,
  • most freethinking,
  • most leftist,
  • more insurrectionary,
  • more anarchistic,
  • most anarchistic,
  • most extremist,
  • most ultraist,
  • more extremist,
  • farout.
  •rebellious (adjective)
  • dis loyal,
  • more rioting,
  • more sabotaging,
  • in-corrigible,
  • dis-loyal,
  • most attacking,
  • individualistic,
  • in corrigible,
  • most sabotaging,
  • most rioting,
  • more attacking.
  •reluctant (adjective)
  • in-voluntary,
  • in voluntary,
  • most disheartened,
  • most uneager,
  • more disheartened,
  • un eager,
  • laggard,
  • dis-heartened,
  • in-disposed,
  • most grudging,
  • most laggard,
  • more grudging,
  • dis inclined,
  • un-eager,
  • more uneager,
  • in disposed,
  • dis-inclined,
  • dis heartened,
  • most demurring,
  • more laggard,
  • more demurring.
  •stubborn (adjective)
  • set in ways,
  • set in one ways,
  • un reasonable,
  • set one ways,
  • set ways,
  • un-reasonable,
  • set in ones ways,
  • more cussed,
  • set one's ways,
  • set ones ways,
  • un-shakable,
  • most cussed,
  • in-exorable.
  •unbendable (adjective)
  • un-bendable,
  • un bendable.
  •uncompliant (adjective)
  • un-compliant,
  • un compliant.
  •uncontrollable (adjective)
  • Unrestrainable,
  • like a loose cannon,
  • uncontainable.
  •unruly (adjective)
  • in temperate,
  • in-temperate,
  • out control,
  • out line.
  •untoward (adjective)
  • in convenient,
  • mis fortunate,
  • starcrossed,
  • un fortunate,
  • un timely,
  • un happiest,
  • un favorable,
  • un-luckier,
  • ill starred,
  • un luckiest,
  • mis-fortunate,
  • in opportune,
  • un propitious,
  • un timelier,
  • Star-crossed,
  • in auspicious,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un-timely,
  • un timeliest,
  • more misfortunate,
  • un luckier,
  • un happier,
  • in-auspicious,
  • illstarred,
  • un-favorable,
  • un-timeliest,
  • un happy,
  • star crossed,
  • in-convenient,
  • most misfortunate,
  • in-opportune,
  • un-lucky,
  • un-timelier,
  • un lucky,
  • un-happy.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • loath,
  • squeamish,
  • uninclined,
  • uncheerful,
  • hesitant,
  • unhelpful,
  • unwishful,
  • non-consenting,
  • balky,
  • unready,
  • unobliging,
  • irreconcilable.
  •wayward (adjective)
  • more cross grained,
  • un-dependable,
  • most cross grained,
  • most cross-grained,
  • un dependable,
  • self indulgent,
  • more cross-grained,
  • selfindulgent,
  • in-constant,
  • un-stabler,
  • un stabler,
  • cross grained,
  • un stable,
  • most crossgrained,
  • un-stable,
  • un stablest,
  • more crossgrained,
  • un predictable,
  • un-predictable,
  • un-stablest.

• n.

  •
  • critical,
  • impossible,
  • awkward,
  • thorny,
  • testing,
  • delicate,
  • difficult,
  • intolerable,
  • trying.
  •
  • resist.
  •
  • control,
  • disorderly,
  • order,
  • peace.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • restless,
  • lawless.
  •Other relevant words:
  • quell,
  • doctrinaire,
  • persistently,
  • enormity,
  • curb,
  • rigid,
  • strength,
  • footballer,
  • insurrectionist,
  • fidgety,
  • violent,
  • stifle,
  • character,
  • inexorable,
  • defensive,
  • force,
  • bashful,
  • dogmatic,
  • riotous,
  • pugnacious,
  • quench,
  • obstinately,
  • cussedly,
  • personality,
  • self-effacing,
  • retiring,
  • revolting,
  • modest,
  • encounter,
  • overpower,
  • party,
  • unmoving,
  • evasive,
  • fixed,
  • quash,
  • Incontrollable,
  • impatient,
  • rage,
  • hardly,
  • rogue,
  • mutineer,
  • personage,
  • subjugate,
  • repress,
  • soul,
  • rebel,
  • creature,
  • stiff-necked,
  • conceal,
  • shy,
  • sheepish,
  • strangle,
  • petulant,
  • reserved,
  • obdurately,
  • peckish,
  • against the grain,
  • brutality,
  • spunky,
  • combative,
  • unfavourable,
  • do violence,
  • incisive,
  • hard,
  • froward,
  • kicker,
  • ferocity,
  • self-conscious,
  • ill-behaved,
  • peevish,
  • persevering,
  • resolutely,
  • vexatious,
  • insurrectional,
  • diffident,
  • nettlesome,
  • independent,
  • go against,
  • contrarily,
  • coy,
  • stony,
  • assertive,
  • tempestuous,
  • inhibit,
  • antithetical,
  • insistently,
  • unaccommodating,
  • man,
  • unpretentious,
  • come to,
  • rebellion,
  • violence,
  • tenaciously,
  • doggedly,
  • tetchy,
  • dour,
  • rampageous,
  • mulishly,
  • determinedly,
  • fierceness,
  • pertinaciously,
  • steadfast,
  • Defier,
  • unchangeable,
  • uncompromising,
  • emphatic,
  • oppress,
  • demure,
  • belligerent,
  • restrain,
  • check,
  • unrestrained,
  • unyieldingly,
  • intensity,
  • contain,
  • break in two,
  • stubbornly,
  • overcome,
  • unassuming,
  • untamable,
  • Refluent,
  • timorous,
  • retroactive,
  • outrage,
  • brazen,
  • vehemence,
  • anarchic,
  • unregulated,
  • turbulent,
  • person,
  • Resty,
  • body,
  • atrocity,
  • stormy,
  • subdue,
  • unpredictable,
  • seditions,
  • suppress,
  • timid,
  • waywardly,
  • conquer,
  • muffle,
  • stroppy,
  • refuse,
  • tumultuous,
  • play.

Paraphrases for Recalcitrant:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    reluctant, rebellious, insurgent, rebel, obstinate, stubborn.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    intractable, unwilling, intransigent, hard-line.

Antonyms for Recalcitrant:

• adj.

  • disobedient, uncontrollable
    amenable, passive, manageable, compliant, yielding, agreeable, obedient.
  • Other antonyms:
    placable, cooperative, pliable, disciplined, responsive, orderly, receptive, mannerly, temperate, respectful, servile, accepting, willing, governable, obliging, subservient, courteous, amiable, reasonable, persuadable, deferential, kowtowing, decorous, ruly, peaceable, Trainable, obsequious, controllable, gentle, polite, quiet, proper, slavish, well-bred.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    eager, orthodox.