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21contumacious — adj contrary, perverse, froward, refractory, cross grained, Scot. thrawn, wrong headed; obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, pigheaded, bullheaded; willful, self willed, intractable, headstrong, pervicacious, stiff necked, dogged,… …
22intractable — adj 1. indocile, unsubmissive, uncompliant, incompliant, uncooperative, unconforming, nonconforming; stubborn, obstinate, pervicacious, pig headed, mulish, obdurate, headstrong, willful, strong willed, wayward, wrong headed; cross grained,… …
23intransigent — adj 1. uncompromising, irreconcilable, implacable, unappeasable, inexorable; unrelenting, relentless, unmerciful, pitiless, hard hearted, unfeeling; impervious, uninfluenced, unaffected, unmoved, unpersuaded, untouched. 2. unyielding, unbending,… …
24mulish — adj 1. stubborn, obstinate, pervicacious, pig headed, obdurate, headstrong, willful, strong willed, self willed; intransigent, uncompromising, irreconcilable, unyielding, unbending; hard line, determined, rigid, inflexible, dogged, pertinacious,… …
25perverse — adj 1. contrary, contradictory, Archaic. contrarious, froward, contumacious, cross grained, seditious, refractory, querulous; wayward, disobedient, intransigent, wrong headed; troublesome, vexatious, difficult; wild, unruly, unmanageable,… …
26recalcitrant — adj refractory, unmanageable, unsubmissive, intractable, contumacious, disobedient, insubordinate, difficult; fractious, rebellious, mutinous, unruly; headstrong, willfull, pervicacious, strong willed, defiant, wayward; perverse, contrary,… …
27stiff-necked — adj 1. pertinacious, stubborn, Inf. ornery; pigheaded, bullheaded, mulish, stubborn as a mule; unyielding, intractable, obdurate, obstinate, Inf. hard headed, Inf. boneheaded; inflexible, unbending, adamant, adamantine; rigid, stony, fixed;… …
28unyielding — adj 1. unbending, inflexible, inductile, stiff; rigid, firm, hard, adamantine; implastic, inelastic, wooden, petrified, ossified; set, fixed, immobile, immovable, unchangeable. 2. unrelieved, relentless, implacable; stark, hardcore;… …
29willful — adj 1. deliberate, intentional, intended; premeditated, prepense, planned, calculated; voluntary, volitional, discretional, unforced, self determined. 2. obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, pigheaded, bullheaded; obdurate,… …
30pervicaciously — adverb see pervicacious …
