Words and phrases that have a meaning related to recalcitrant: (135 results)
Often used in the same context:
obstinate, intransigent, obstreperous, truculent, incorrigible, unruly, wayward, ornery, belligerent, troublesome, stubborn, uncooperative, feckless, troublemaking, disobedient, obsequious, meddlesome, quarrelsome, insolent, highhanded, cantankerous, prickly, uncouth, pliant, importunate, intractable, obnoxious, timorous, stroppy, complaisant, disgruntled, cranky, irate, acquiescent, rebellious, bellicose, petulant, surliest, hapless, loathsome, pusillanimous, ineffectual, errant, impatient, mutinous, irascible, contemptuous, temporizing, benighted, domineering, avaricious, pigheaded, irresponsive, obdurate, restive, irritating, impotent, thuggish, uppity, servile, unappreciative, bossy, belligerant, implacable, obstructive, arrogant, unmannerly, spineless, overbearing, obliging, disdainful, erstwhile, mulish, fissiparous, vexed, temperamental, impudent, unenlightened, pushy, vengeful, unpalatable, maladroit, rapacious, wimpish, zealous, grumpy, tyrannical, incommunicative, infuriating, boorish, ungrateful, beggarly, docile, crotchety, wily, crabby, discontented, brutish, unprincipled, dictatorial, haughty, grumbly, tender, dear, destitute, express, juvenile, radiant, approximate, barren, con, entire, hops, lone, pleasing, read, secret, simple, small, sub, winning, aggrieved, disaffected, dissatisfied, fractious, deaf, insubordinate, disposed, indigent, minded, reluctant, assimilated, interested
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Also try:defiant, refractory
— Nouns for recalcitrant: members, cases, states, child, member, state, seeds, compounds, elements, children, employers, more...
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