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willful, wilful

adj. done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful disobedience"

froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful

adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate

adj. tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

intractable

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

incorrigible

adj. impervious to correction by punishment

indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly

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

recalcitrant

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

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"

cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

difficult, hard

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"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

hardheaded, mulish

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

refractory, recalcitrant

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

mutinous

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

rebellious

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

uncompromising, sturdy, inflexible

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

unservile, unsubmissive

adj. not servile or submissive

bullheaded, bullet-headed, pigheaded

adj. obstinate and stupid

adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent

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"

by choice

adj. not by chance

free, self-determining

adj. acting on one's own initiative; "man is a voluntary agent"

freewill, free-will

adj. "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"

self-imposed

adj. voluntarily assumed or endured; "self-imposed exile"

uncoerced, unforced, willing

adj. not brought about by coercion or force; "the confession was uncoerced"

unpaid, volunteer(a)

adj. without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department"

contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward

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

recusant

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

fractious, refractory, recalcitrant

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

involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary

adj. not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy

obedient

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

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