What is another word for recalcitrant?
720 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)
- other relevant words (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 relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- Crossgrained,
- anarchistic,
- uncontrollable,
- paradoxical,
- unbendable,
- tough-nut,
- non-conformist,
- radical,
- Unpliable,
- hard line,
- leftist,
- rebellious,
- uncompliant,
- recusant,
- Ultraist,
- rascally,
- Incompliant,
- tough nut,
- disobedient,
- locked in,
- singleminded,
- anti,
- uncomplying,
- unwilling,
- misfortunate,
- die hard,
- set in stone,
- set in one's ways,
- reluctant,
- uneager,
- insubordinate,
- naughty,
- brassbound,
- contumacious,
- restive,
- contrary,
- Contrariant,
- untoward,
- indocile,
- pigheaded,
- defiant,
- freethinking,
- cross-grained,
- bull-headed,
- dead set on,
- strong-minded,
- noncompliant,
- out of line,
- mule,
- dissentient,
- Pig-headed,
- wrongheaded,
- self-willed,
- dissentious,
- badly behaved,
- head-strong.
- 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.
- alien,
- steely,
- stern,
- revolutionary,
- impatient of control,
- Retardative,
- strident,
- opposed,
- resistive,
- springing,
- bouncing,
- bullish,
- Contradicting,
- dissenting,
- militant,
- fast,
- fury,
- antithetic,
- stand,
- mulish,
- nonconformable,
- hard-boiled,
- Withstanding,
- go-getter,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- uncooperative,
- shrewish,
- intransigent,
- Oppugnant,
- ornery,
- intent,
- flinty,
- pertinacious,
- unsubmissive,
- adversative,
- beyond control,
- repugnant,
- gutsy,
- purposeful,
- concerted,
- reactionary,
- sustained,
- breakaway,
- gritty,
- insistent,
- firm,
- nonconforming,
- noncooperative,
- intractable,
- smartly,
- budge,
- bullheaded,
- reactionist,
- fractious,
- stop,
- rival,
- undisciplined,
- adversary,
- sturdy,
- sulky,
- robustly,
- inflexible,
- adamant,
- unadjustable,
- tenacious,
- involuntary,
- unmalleable,
- forced,
- refractory,
- earnest,
- bloody-minded,
- Four-square,
- bound,
- tough,
- stubborn,
- oppositive,
- obdurate,
- urgent,
- dissident,
- unmanageable,
- antipathetic,
- nonconformist,
- indisposed,
- indomitable,
- unbiddable,
- obstreperous,
- nonobservant,
- inimical,
- adamantine,
- unrelenting,
- inch,
- set,
- repellent,
- oppositional,
- deviant,
- Repercussive,
- persevere,
- perfunctory,
- Disaccordant,
- unfriendly,
- monolithic,
- negative,
- daunt,
- unadaptable,
- antagonistic,
- sit,
- resistant,
- aggressive,
- adverse,
- feisty,
- perverse,
- dauntless,
- strong,
- cranky,
- counteractant,
- fervent,
- unconsenting,
- proof against,
- stouthearted,
- going,
- Recoiling,
- determined,
- stick,
- immovable,
- countervailing,
- unpropitious,
- counterworking,
- resolute,
- out of hand,
- Hell,
- at odds,
- contradictory,
- Hard-headed,
- irrepressible,
- unmoldable,
- unbending,
- headstrong,
- stout,
- stoutly,
- stiff,
- obstructive,
- dig,
- differing,
- unyielding,
- rain,
- disagreeing,
- penny,
- ravening,
- Objecting,
- Resisting,
- competitive,
- forceful,
- firmly,
- undaunted,
- retardant,
- resilient,
- opponent,
- serious,
- disinclined,
- square,
- persistent,
- wedded,
- wild,
- unfavorable,
- ungovernable,
- clashing,
- strong-willed,
- rebounding,
- importunate,
- bent,
- wayward,
- on the barricades,
- dogged,
- Insuppressible,
- unruly,
- Perseverant,
- shrill,
- Breachy,
- iron,
- counter,
- single-minded,
- Disputing,
- cursory,
- obstinate,
- crotchety,
- manfully,
- pushy,
- Counteracting,
- bounding,
- mutinous,
- protesting,
- redoubtable,
- averse,
- gun,
- con,
- willful,
- Renitent,
- hostile,
- unconforming,
- up in arms,
- cross,
- wilful,
- complaining,
- incorrigible,
- driven,
- Overthwart,
- opposing,
- lean,
- opposite,
- conflicting,
- disputatious,
- enemy,
- take,
- counteractive,
- doughty,
- sullen.
Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words: •Other relevant words (noun):- 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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