What is another word for recalcitrant?
447 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɹɪkˈalsɪtɹənt], [ ɹɪkˈalsɪtɹənt], [ ɹ_ɪ_k_ˈa_l_s_ɪ_t_ɹ_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for recalcitrant:- all (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- contumacious (adjective)
- defiant (adjective)
- disobedient (adjective)
- disobedient, uncontrollable (adjective)
- fractious (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- insubordinate (adjective)
- intractable (adjective)
- intractable /intransigent (adjective)
- mulish (adjective)
- naughty (adjective)
- noncompliant (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- pig-headed (adjective)
- radical (adjective)
- rebellious (adjective)
- reluctant (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- uncontrollable (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- untoward (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Recalcitrant:
adj.
•all (adjective) •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.
- mischievous,
- treasonous,
- Disobeying,
- traitorous,
- seditious,
- Disregardful,
- disloyal,
- subversive,
- out of control,
- Misbehaving,
- treacherous.
- in-subordinate,
- in subordinate,
- most dissentious,
- un-governable,
- un-complying,
- un governable,
- most uncomplying,
- more uncomplying,
- more dissentious,
- un complying.
- in tractable,
- most bull headed,
- more bull headed,
- in-tractable,
- most bull-headed,
- bull headed,
- more bull-headed.
- 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.
- 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.
- teasing,
- impish,
- in decorous,
- most rascally,
- most exasperating,
- more rascally,
- in-decorous,
- ex-asperating,
- ex asperating,
- more exasperating.
- 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.
- dis loyal,
- more rioting,
- more sabotaging,
- in-corrigible,
- dis-loyal,
- most attacking,
- individualistic,
- in corrigible,
- most sabotaging,
- most rioting,
- more attacking.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- loath,
- squeamish,
- uninclined,
- uncheerful,
- hesitant,
- unhelpful,
- unwishful,
- non-consenting,
- balky,
- unready,
- unobliging,
- irreconcilable.
- 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.
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- critical,
- impossible,
- awkward,
- thorny,
- testing,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- intolerable,
- trying.
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- resist.
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- control,
- disorderly,
- order,
- peace.
Other synonyms:
•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:
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Independent
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Adjective
intractable, unwilling, intransigent, hard-line.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Recalcitrant:
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adj.
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disobedient, uncontrollable
amenable, passive, manageable, compliant, yielding, agreeable, obedient.
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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.
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disobedient, uncontrollable
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