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recalcitrant synonyms
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- adverse
- anti
- antipathetic
- antipodal
- antipodean
- antithetical
- balky
- clashing
- conflicting
- contradictory
- contrariant
- contumacious
- converse
- alienated
- contrary
- disaffected
- estranged
- factious
- froward
- haughty
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- intractable
- intransigent
- irreconcilable
- aggressive
- audacious
- bold
- challenging
- contumacious
- daring
- gutsy
- insolent
- insubmissive
- insubordinate
- mutinous
- obstinate
- provocative
- awkward
- captious
- crabby
- disorderly
- fretful
- froward
- huffy
- indocile
- indomitable
- intractable
- irritable
- mean
- ornery
- dogged
- impassable
- impregnable
- insuperable
- insurmountable
- invincible
- invulnerable
- obstinate
- pertinacious
- resolute
- ruthless
- staunch
- stubborn
- aggressive
- audacious
- bold
- challenging
- contumacious
- daring
- gutsy
- insolent
- insubordinate
- mutinous
- obstinate
- provocative
- rebellious
- contrary
- contumacious
- defiant
- disaffected
- disobedient
- disorderly
- dissentious
- factious
- fractious
- insurgent
- intractable
- mutinous
- naughty
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- adamant
- cantankerous
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- convinced
- dead set on
- dogged
- dogmatic
- firm
- hard
- hardened
- headstrong
- adverse
- antagonistic
- anti
- conflicting
- contending
- opposite
- rival
- basal
- bottom
- cardinal
- constitutional
- deep-seated
- essential
- foundational
- inherent
- innate
- intrinsic
- meat-and-potatoes
- native
- natural
- alienated
- anarchistic
- attacking
- bellicose
- contumacious
- defiant
- difficult
- disaffected
- disloyal
- disobedient
- disorderly
- dissident
- factious
- disobedient
- headstrong
- mulish
- obstinate
- unmanageable
- unruly
- willful
- contrary
- defiant
- disobedient
- opposing
- rebellious
- unyielding
- contrary
- defiant
- disobedient
- opposing
- rebellious
- renitent
- resistive
- unyielding
- adamant
- balky
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- inexorable
- contrary
- contumacious
- defiant
- fractious
- indomitable
- insubmissive
- insubordinate
- intractable
- obstinate
- opposing
- radical
- rebellious
- refractory
- defiant
- disorderly
- headstrong
- inconsistent
- insubordinate
- lacking self-control
- mischievous
- naughty
- noncompliant
- ungoverned
- unrestrained
- unruly
- untrained
- disobedient
- disorderly
- fractious
- impetuous
- impotent
- intractable
- irrepressible
- mutinous
- rampant
- refractory
- unbridled
- uncontrollable
- undisciplined
- awkward
- berserk
- chaotic
- crazy
- disobedient
- disorderly
- hysterical
- lawless
- madcap
- nuts
- out of control
- outrageous
- riotous
- assertive
- bawdy
- disorderly
- drunken
- forward
- fractious
- headstrong
- heedless
- impervious
- impetuous
- imprudent
- impulsive
- incorrigible
- adverse
- annoying
- awkward
- contrary
- disastrous
- disturbing
- fractious
- hapless
- ill-starred
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- indocile
- inimical
- afraid
- against
- against the grain
- averse
- backward
- begrudging
- compelled
- contrary
- demurring
- disinclined
- disobliging
- evasive
- forced
- aberrant
- arbitrary
- balky
- capricious
- changeable
- contumacious
- cross-grained
- delinquent
- disobedient
- disorderly
- errant
- erratic
- fickle
- agrarian
- barbarian
- barbaric
- barbarous
- dense
- desert
- deserted
- desolate
- escaped
- feral
- ferocious
- fierce
- free
- adamant
- bullheaded
- contumacious
- determined
- dogged
- fractious
- froward
- headstrong
- inflexible
- intractable
- intransigent
- mulish
- obdurate
- brace
- brave
- buck
- combat
- confront
- contest
- cope
- cross
- defy
- dispute
- duel
- face
- fight
- brace
- brave
- buck
- combat
- confront
- contest
- cope
- cross
- defy
- dispute
- duel
- face
- fight
- brace
- brave
- buck
- combat
- confront
- contest
- cope
- cross
- defy
- dispute
- duel
- face
- fight
- brace
- brave
- buck
- combat
- confront
- contest
- cope
- cross
- defy
- dispute
- duel
- face
- fight
- brace
- brave
- buck
- combat
- confront
- contest
- cope
- cross
- defy
- dispute
- duel
- face
- fight
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