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adj. difficult to deal with

curly-grained, cross-grained, wavy-grained

adj. of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel

adj. not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

refractory, recalcitrant

adj. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

refractory, stubborn

adj. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

fractious, refractory, recalcitrant

adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

restive

adj. impatient especially under restriction or delay; "the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive"

disobedient

adj. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"

recalcitrant

adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

loath, loth, reluctant

adj. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"

bloody-minded, cantankerous

adj. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator

bolshy, stroppy

adj. obstreperous

bullheaded, bullet-headed, pigheaded

adj. obstinate and stupid

dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

hardheaded, mulish

adj. unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

obstreperous

adj. boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor"

stiff-necked

adj. haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin"

strong-minded, strong-willed

adj. having a determined will

angled

adj. forming or set at an angle; "angled parking"

skew, skewed

adj. having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"

convergent

adj. tending to come together from different directions

decussate, intersectant, intersecting

adj. crossed or intersected in the form of an X

diagonal

adj. connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page"

orthogonal, rectangular

adj. having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"

right

adj. having the axis perpendicular to the base; "a right angle"

serial, in series(p), nonparallel

adj. of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing"

docile

adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"

compliant

adj. disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"

acquiescent, biddable

adj. willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"

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