restive

restive adjective averse, balking, balky, contumacious, crossgrained, crotchety, deaf to reason, demurring, difficult, discontented, disinclined, disobedient, exceptious, excitable, excited, fidgety, fractious, fretful, grumpy, headstrong, humorsome, ill at ease, impatient, inflexible, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, irreconcilable, lawless, loath, moody, mulish, mutinous, obdurate, obstinate, on edge, out-of-sorts, perverse, pervicacious, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, resentful, resisting control, restiff, restless, revolutionary, seditious, skittish, splenetic, stickling, stubborn, sulky, sullen, unaccommodating, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconsenting, uncontrollable, uneasy, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrestful, unruly, unsettled, unsubmissive, unwilling, unyielding, wayward, willful

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See also: adverse, contumacious, disinclined, disobedient, disorderly, fractious, froward, hostile, insubordinate, intractable, lawless, recalcitrant, recusant, uncontrollable, unruly, willful