Definition for Recalcitrant:

• marked by stubborn resistance to authority; " the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

Synonyms for Recalcitrant:

• adj.

  •contumacious (adjective)
  • insurgent.
  •defiant (adjective)
  • challenging,
  • defiant,
  • stubborn,
  • resistant,
  • insolent,
  • daring,
  • obstinate,
  • confrontational,
  • conflicting,
  • bold,
  • audacious,
  • insurgent,
  • rebellious,
  • dissenting,
  • insubmissive,
  • insubordinate,
  • factious.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • intractable.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • disloyal,
  • out of control,
  • treasonous,
  • Misbehaving,
  • traitorous,
  • rebellious,
  • wayward,
  • mischievous,
  • unruly,
  • insubordinate,
  • Disregardful,
  • undisciplined,
  • subversive,
  • Disobeying,
  • ungovernable,
  • contrary,
  • defiant,
  • nonconformist,
  • unmanageable,
  • intractable,
  • anarchistic,
  • disobedient,
  • factious,
  • nonobservant,
  • seditious,
  • treacherous,
  • mutinous.
  •disobedient, uncontrollable (adjective)
  • fractious,
  • insubmissive,
  • unmanageable,
  • Withstanding,
  • undisciplined,
  • refractory,
  • wild,
  • opposing,
  • wayward,
  • intractable,
  • Resisting,
  • unruly,
  • stubborn,
  • willful,
  • untoward,
  • contumacious,
  • defiant,
  • rebellious,
  • unwilling,
  • obstinate,
  • contrary,
  • indomitable,
  • insubordinate,
  • undisciplinable,
  • resistant,
  • ungovernable,
  • radical.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • fractious.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • mulish,
  • obstinate.
  •pigheaded (adjective)
  • stiff-necked.
  •uncontrollable (adjective)
  • irrepressible,
  • undisciplinable,
  • Insuppressible.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • hesitant,
  • loath,
  • defiant,
  • obstinate,
  • squeamish,
  • reluctant,
  • irreconcilable,
  • opposed,
  • unwilling,
  • averse,
  • indisposed,
  • noncooperative,
  • uncomplying,
  • disinclined,
  • against the grain,
  • Resisting,
  • unyielding,
  • unconsenting,
  • unaccommodating,
  • stubborn,
  • non-consenting,
  • uncooperative,
  • unhelpful,
  • contrary,
  • balky.

• n.

  •
  • difficult,
  • awkward.
  •
  • contumacious.
  •
  • indocile,
  • untoward,
  • obstreperous,
  • lawless,
  • wild,
  • disorderly,
  • uncontrollable.
  •recalcitrant (noun)
  • defiant,
  • intractable,
  • noncompliant,
  • refractory.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • indocile.
  •
  • lawless,
  • obstreperous,
  • contumacious,
  • uncontrollable,
  • radical,
  • restless.
  •
  • disorderly.
  •
  • untoward.
  •
  • wild.
  •wayward
  • naughty.
  •Other relevant words:
  • conceal,
  • irrepressible,
  • counteractant,
  • antithetic,
  • persevering,
  • unyieldingly,
  • Recoiling,
  • lawless,
  • involuntary,
  • Defier,
  • pigheaded,
  • muffle,
  • beyond control,
  • con,
  • unfriendly,
  • sulky,
  • oppositive,
  • unchangeable,
  • quell,
  • untamable,
  • cursory,
  • unsubmissive,
  • indocile,
  • violence,
  • tempestuous,
  • froward,
  • repugnant,
  • incisive,
  • Pig-headed,
  • unrelenting,
  • tetchy,
  • undisciplinable,
  • mulish,
  • self-effacing,
  • demure,
  • fixed,
  • fractious,
  • revolting,
  • refuse,
  • fierceness,
  • hardly,
  • Refluent,
  • contrarily,
  • bouncing,
  • wild,
  • rebel,
  • fury,
  • curb,
  • against the grain,
  • rival,
  • pertinaciously,
  • timid,
  • quench,
  • difficult,
  • unfavourable,
  • antipathetic,
  • adamant,
  • rage,
  • strangle,
  • soul,
  • Restiff,
  • nettlesome,
  • Retardative,
  • rebellion,
  • ornery,
  • force,
  • stubbornly,
  • evasive,
  • firmly,
  • restrain,
  • clashing,
  • brazen,
  • mutineer,
  • unaccommodating,
  • alien,
  • brutality,
  • obdurate,
  • forceful,
  • disputatious,
  • ill-behaved,
  • sullen,
  • Insuppressible,
  • combative,
  • naughty,
  • break in two,
  • resistive,
  • riotous,
  • counterworking,
  • peevish,
  • retroactive,
  • unmalleable,
  • uncontrollable,
  • Hard-headed,
  • stony,
  • self-conscious,
  • coy,
  • intensity,
  • party,
  • uncompromising,
  • opinionated,
  • mulishly,
  • opposing,
  • defensive,
  • disagreeing,
  • dissentient,
  • subdue,
  • outrage,
  • violent,
  • restless,
  • reserved,
  • restive,
  • determinedly,
  • stroppy,
  • wilful,
  • petulant,
  • unmoving,
  • obstinately,
  • unpretentious,
  • obdurately,
  • obstreperous,
  • repress,
  • self-willed,
  • strong-willed,
  • Counteracting,
  • untoward,
  • dissident,
  • bashful,
  • rampageous,
  • resolute,
  • atrocity,
  • springing,
  • play,
  • diffident,
  • independent,
  • unadaptable,
  • unregulated,
  • persistently,
  • stormy,
  • Objecting,
  • unadjustable,
  • set,
  • reactionist,
  • aggressive,
  • Withstanding,
  • suppress,
  • antithetical,
  • determined,
  • single-minded,
  • unpredictable,
  • Disaccordant,
  • insubmissive,
  • willful,
  • adversary,
  • persistent,
  • peckish,
  • cranky,
  • strong-minded,
  • bullheaded,
  • dour,
  • competitive,
  • character,
  • steadfast,
  • Breachy,
  • intransigent,
  • deviant,
  • adverse,
  • turbulent,
  • vexatious,
  • come to,
  • opposite,
  • belligerent,
  • rogue,
  • nonconforming,
  • protesting,
  • forced,
  • refractory,
  • uncompliant,
  • personage,
  • impatient,
  • Incontrollable,
  • retardant,
  • check,
  • pushy,
  • doctrinaire,
  • hard,
  • assertive,
  • footballer,
  • dogmatic,
  • ferocity,
  • do violence,
  • oppositional,
  • Contradicting,
  • unfavorable,
  • enormity,
  • overcome,
  • resolutely,
  • body,
  • complaining,
  • cussedly,
  • inimical,
  • opponent,
  • immovable,
  • rigid,
  • anti,
  • negative,
  • insistently,
  • fidgety,
  • tenacious,
  • kicker,
  • Oppugnant,
  • bounding,
  • pertinacious,
  • hostile,
  • headstrong,
  • nonobservant,
  • seditions,
  • contumacious,
  • vehemence,
  • overpower,
  • Incompliant,
  • person,
  • quash,
  • Overthwart,
  • man,
  • unrestrained,
  • spunky,
  • go against,
  • firm,
  • adversative,
  • resilient,
  • subjugate,
  • encounter,
  • gutsy,
  • stop,
  • waywardly,
  • inexorable,
  • incorrigible,
  • unbending,
  • contain,
  • unconforming,
  • modest,
  • recusant,
  • radical,
  • sheepish,
  • shrewish,
  • Resty,
  • out of hand,
  • obstructive,
  • cross-grained,
  • inhibit,
  • countervailing,
  • breakaway,
  • stiff,
  • tumultuous,
  • bull-headed,
  • awkward,
  • antagonistic,
  • rebounding,
  • creature,
  • revolutionary,
  • emphatic,
  • counteractive,
  • tenaciously,
  • pugnacious,
  • shy,
  • conquer,
  • noncompliant,
  • Disputing,
  • indomitable,
  • disorderly,
  • contradictory,
  • stifle,
  • strong,
  • inflexible,
  • Renitent,
  • insurrectional,
  • retiring,
  • Repercussive,
  • strength,
  • unpropitious,
  • up in arms,
  • doggedly,
  • timorous,
  • counter,
  • personality,
  • stiff-necked,
  • reactionary,
  • bloody-minded,
  • oppress,
  • differing,
  • perverse,
  • at odds,
  • cross,
  • repellent,
  • unassuming,
  • enemy,
  • perfunctory,
  • anarchic,
  • dogged,
  • insurrectionist,
  • crotchety.

Antonyms for Recalcitrant:

• adj.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    eager, orthodox.