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Adjective recalcitrant has 2 senses

• recalcitrant(s = adj.all) fractious, refractory - stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
• recalcitrant(s = adj.all) Array - marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"
Derived form noun recalcitrancy₁

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recalcitrant

adamant, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, at odds, averse, beyond control, bouncing, bounding, breachy, breakaway, clashing, competitive, complaining, con, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, cursory, defiant, deviant, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, enemy, firm, forced, fractious, headstrong, hostile, immovable, impatient of control, incorrigible, indisposed, indocile, indomitable, inflexible, inimical, insubordinate, insuppressible, intractable, involuntary, irrepressible, mutinous, negative, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonconformist, noncooperative, nonobservant, objecting, obstinate, obstreperous, obstructive, on the barricades, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, ornery, out of hand, overthwart, perfunctory, perverse, proof against, protesting, reactionary, reactionist, rebellious, rebounding, recoiling, recusant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, repercussive, repugnant, resilient, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, revolutionary, rival, shrewish, springing, stiff, stubborn, sulky, sullen, unadaptable, unadjustable, unbending, unbiddable, uncompliant, unconforming, unconsenting, uncontrollable, uncooperative, undisciplined, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpropitious, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward, unwilling, unyielding, up in arms, wayward, wild, withstanding

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Resistance

N resistance, stand, front, oppugnation, oppugnancy, opposition, renitence, renitency, reluctation, recalcitration, kicking, repulse, rebuff, insurrection, strike, turn out, lock out, barring out, levee en masse, Jacquerie, riot, resisting, resistive, resistant, refractory, recalcitrant, renitent, up in arms, repulsive, repellant, proof against, unconquerable, stubborn, unconquered, indomitable, unyielding, Int, hands off!, keep off!.

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

Recoil

N recoil, reaction, retroaction, revulsion, bounce, rebound, ricochet, repercussion, recalcitration, kick, contrecoup, springing back, elasticity, reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux, reverberation, rebuff, repulse, return, ducks and drakes, boomerang, spring, reactionist, elastic collision, coefficient of restitution, recoiling, refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary, retroactive, on the rebound, on the recoil, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.

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