recalcitrant
adjective
[ rɪˈkalsɪtr(ə)nt ]
• having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
• "a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds"
Similar:
uncooperative,
obstinately disobedient,
intractable,
unmanageable,
ungovernable,
refractory,
insubordinate,
defiant,
rebellious,
mutinous,
wilful,
wayward,
headstrong,
self-willed,
contrary,
perverse,
difficult,
awkward,
obdurate,
bloody-minded,
bolshie,
stroppy,
contumacious,
froward,
renitent,
pervicacious,
recalcitrant
noun
• a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude.
• "a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker"
Origin:
mid 19th century: from Latin recalcitrant- ‘kicking out with the heels’, from the verb recalcitrare, based on calx, calc- ‘heel’.
