Thesaurus / intransigent
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The tide was turning but the intransigent faction needed a few more kicks.
‘CURED’ BEAUTIFULLY CHRONICLES FIGHT FOR DIGNITYKHELIL BOUARROUJSEPTEMBER 24, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEOver the past two decades, Israel has moved toward a more and more intransigent position on the Palestinian issue.
THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PROBLEMFAREED ZAKARIAMAY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThis would allow an intransigent senator could push final passage of the one-week bill into the weekend.
SENATE APPROVES ONE-WEEK SPENDING BILL TO AVERT MIDNIGHT SHUTDOWNMIKE DEBONIS, JEFF STEIN, SEUNG MIN KIMDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTOther sea slaves have described sick deckhands being thrown overboard and intransigent ones being locked in the hold, whipped, or beheaded.
THE NEW WAVE OF FISHLESS FISH IS HEREROWAN JACOBSENNOVEMBER 24, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEWe have a responsibility to help on the hard, intransigent issues that weigh down San Diegans and make them feel hopeless.
REVERSING RACISM WILL TAKE EVERY TOOL AVAILABLE — INCLUDING PROP. 16MARK STUARTOCTOBER 28, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOA year later I found Agoncillo of exactly the same intransigent persuasion.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANFor the Independent Socialists to the left were intransigent and in voting power insignificant.
THE NEW GERMANYGEORGE YOUNGMitzi, who sometimes was present at our discussions, was very intransigent.
MY AUSTRIAN LOVEMAXIME PROVOSTRe-elected as a matter of course in 1856, Montt's second term was even more intransigent than his first.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS, PART II (OF 2)THOMAS C. DAWSONThus religion acquires a meaning and a reasonableness that the most intransigent rationalist cannot misunderstand.
THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFEEMILE DURKHEIMWORDS RELATED TO INTRANSIGENT
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
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- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- adamant
- cantankerous
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- convinced
- dead set on
- dogged
- dogmatic
- firm
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- immovable
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- intractable
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- locked-in
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- opinionated
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- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- resolved
- restive
- self-willed
- steadfast
- strong-minded
- tenacious
- unalterable
- unflinching
- unmanageable
- unyielding
- willful
- adamant
- arbitrary
- assertive
- biased
- bigoted
- bossy
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- cocksure
- cocky
- conceited
- dictatorial
- doctrinaire
- dogmatic
- hard-line
- high-handed
- inflexible
- intransigent
- locked-in
- obdurate
- obstinate
- one-sided
- oracular
- overbearing
- pigheaded
- positive
- pragmatic
- pragmatical
- prejudiced
- self-assertive
- set in stone
- set on
- single-minded
- stubborn
- tilted
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- weighted
- abnormal
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- capricious
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- corrupt
- crabby
- cross
- degenerate
- delinquent
- depraved
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- disobedient
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- erring
- fractious
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- headstrong
- intractable
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- irritable
- miscreant
- mulish
- nefarious
- obdurate
- obstinate
- petulant
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- refractory
- rotten
- self-willed
- spiteful
- stubborn
- unhealthy
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unyielding
- villainous
- wayward
- wicked
- willful
- advanced
- anarchistic
- complete
- entire
- excessive
- extremist
- fanatical
- far-out
- freethinking
- iconoclastic
- immoderate
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- intransigent
- lawless
- leftist
- militant
- mutinous
- nihilistic
- progressive
- rabid
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- recusant
- refractory
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- revolutionary
- riotous
- seditious
- severe
- sweeping
- thorough
- ultra
- ultraist
- uncompromising
- violent
- way-out
- adamant
- adamantine
- austere
- bullheaded
- changeless
- chiseled
- dead set
- definite
- determined
- exact
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-line
- harsh
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intransigent
- invariable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- rigorous
- set
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- single-minded
- solid
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- stern
- strait-laced
- stringent
- unalterable
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- undeviating
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- adamant
- bound
- clinging
- coherent
- cohesive
- determined
- dogged
- fast
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- forceful
- inflexible
- intransigent
- iron
- meaning business
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- persevering
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- persisting
- pertinacious
- possessive
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- relentless
- resolute
- retentive
- set
- solid
- spunky
- stalwart
- staunch
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- stout
- strong-willed
- stubborn
- sturdy
- sure
- tight
- tough
- true
- unforgetful
- unshakable
- unswerving
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.