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unpliable
adjective as in intractable
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- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in intractable/intransigent
Weak matches
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in untoward
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Example Sentences
Water-glass soaps do not dissolve readily in water, they make but little suds, and render the skin hard and unpliable.
There was something fixed in it, and Archie's nebulous easy-going temperament had an invincible repugnance to anything unpliable.
All her life, as it seemed, she had been accustomed to mediate between these two unpliable and stubborn temperaments.
Her very lips were stiff and unpliable with the force of the blood which rushed to her head.
In vain, anxious to be let off, was I restrained in utterance—cold, unpliable.
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On this page you'll find 136 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unpliable, such as: incurable, intransigent, stubborn, uncompromising, unmanageable, and awkward.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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