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)
  • bold,
  • factious,
  • challenging,
  • daring,
  • audacious,
  • insolent,
  • confrontational,
  • insubmissive.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • mischievous,
  • treasonous,
  • Disobeying,
  • traitorous,
  • seditious,
  • Disregardful,
  • disloyal,
  • subversive,
  • out of control,
  • Misbehaving,
  • treacherous.
  •disobedient, uncontrollable (adjective)
  • undisciplinable.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • hesitant,
  • unhelpful,
  • loath,
  • irreconcilable,
  • non-consenting,
  • balky,
  • squeamish.

• n.

  •
  • difficult,
  • awkward.
  •
  • disorderly.

• Other synonyms:

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

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.