recalcitrant (redirected from recalcitrants)

recalcitrant adjective balky, callous, contrary, defiant, disobedient, fractious, hardened, immovable, insubordinate, intractable, mulish, noncooperative, obstinate, obstreperous, opposing, oppugnant, pervicacious, rebellious, recusant, refractory, renitent, resistant, resistive, restive, stubborn, uncomplying, uncontrollable, uncooperative, unmanageable, unrelenting, unsubmissive, unwilling, unyielding, willful
Associated concepts: recalcitrant witness

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See also: adverse, contentious, contumacious, deviant, disinclined, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, fractious, hostile, incorrigible, indomitable, insubordinate, insusceptible, intractable, lawless, nonconsenting, obdurate, recusant, reluctant, renitent, restive, uncontrollable, unreasonable, unruly, unyielding, vicious