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synonyms for recalcitrant

  • fractious
  • obstinate
  • rebellious
  • unruly
  • wayward
  • contrary
  • contumacious
  • defiant
  • indomitable
  • insubmissive
  • insubordinate
  • intractable
  • opposing
  • radical
  • refractory
  • resistant
  • resisting
  • stubborn
  • undisciplinable
  • undisciplined
  • ungovernable
  • unmanageable
  • untoward
  • unwilling
  • wild
  • willful
  • withstanding
See also synonyms for: recalcitrance / recalcitrancy
On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to recalcitrant, such as: fractious, obstinate, rebellious, unruly, wayward, and contrary.

antonyms for recalcitrant

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  • agreeable
  • compliant
  • manageable
  • obedient
  • yielding
  • amenable
  • passive
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How to use recalcitrant in a sentence

The partial oil ban is meaningful because it is something where nothing was before, and because getting recalcitrant and pro-Kremlin Hungary to agree to anything is remarkable.
PUTIN STILL HOLDS THE CARDS WHEN IT COMES TO GLOBAL ENERGYSURIYA JAYANTIJUNE 18, 2022TIME
For especially recalcitrant cases, some resort to the elemental diet, a liquid formula of predigested nutrients that gives the digestive tract a break, starving the bacteria or archaea in the process.
THE MYSTERIES AND UNDERDIAGNOSIS OF SIBOMEAGHAN BEATLEYMARCH 7, 2022TIME
If he refuses then the captain is empowered to arrest the recalcitrant persons.
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Pathological patterns like these typically emerge from a complex constellation of forces that align and feed each other in ways that make them unpredictable and recalcitrant.
HALF THE U.S. BELIEVES ANOTHER CIVIL WAR IS LIKELY. HERE ARE THE 5 STEPS WE MUST TAKE TO AVOID THATPETER T. COLEMANJANUARY 6, 2022TIME
Materials documenting how to grow the recalcitrant orange fungus were essentially nonexistent in the English language until Padilla-Brown published his first cultivation guide in 2017.
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The dream of true precision medicine has been mired in the sluggish and recalcitrant health-care system, where patient data is often seen as more of a nuisance than a benefit.
WHY COVID-19 MIGHT FINALLY USHER IN THE ERA OF HEALTH CARE BASED ON A PATIENT’S DATAKATIE MCLEANFEBRUARY 24, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
However, we always hope the next will prove less recalcitrant; in which faith we advance trembling.
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Gloria looked around at those who remained recalcitrant and concentrated her gaze on Stevens.
THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGELFLETCHER PRATT
It was from this Ireland of the darkness that the recalcitrant Ireland of the twentieth century arose.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
These heartening recollections made me forget the loss of Twist, the recalcitrant cow, and the dilemma that confronted me.
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