adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

adj. tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

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

adj. impervious to correction by punishment

adj. of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"

adj. stubbornly defiant of authority or restraint: "an obstreperous almost mutinous crew"; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"; "a truculent speech against the new government"

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"

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

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

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

adj. disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate"

adj. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"

adj. not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

adj. not servile or submissive

adj. obstinate and stupid

adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

adj. resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

adj. refusing to submit to authority; "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams

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

adj. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke