What are the antonyms for REFRACTORY?
- obliging, Trainable, receptive, soft, gentle, respectful, obsequious, well-bred, flexible, yielding, decorous, dutiful, agreeable, accepting, courteous, wavering, persuadable, manageable, amiable, controllable, cooperative, placable, pliant, pliable, disciplined, servile, temperate, ruly, subservient, proper, obedient, teachable, manipulable, irresolute, reasonable, deferential, orderly, mannerly, undecided, kowtowing, governable, slavish, complaisant, polite, willing.
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Synonyms for REFRACTORY
- complicated,
- wayward,
- unadjustable,
- gone off half-cocked,
- uneager,
- restive,
- argumentative,
- face,
- repellent,
- rowdy,
- chronic,
- fine-grained,
- unrelenting,
- Breachy,
- locked in,
- adverse,
- unshakeable,
- rebellious,
- head-strong,
- inexorable,
- brassbound,
- unaccommodating,
- withstand,
- boisterous,
- audacious,
- pettish,
- bisque,
- delinquent,
- oafish,
- irritable,
- huffy,
- rogue,
- gutsy,
- indocile,
- severe,
- immutable,
- uncontrollable,
- disputatious,
- Resisting,
- unruly,
- willful,
- inelastic,
- insubordinate,
- out of line,
- icy,
- non-conformist,
- difficult,
- tetchy,
- nettlesome,
- unyielding,
- stalwart,
- Oppugnant,
- undisciplined,
- out of hand,
- stand,
- aggressive,
- crockery,
- reluctant,
- cranky,
- on-a-tear,
- intractable,
- bearish,
- reckless,
- cross-grained,
- hard,
- stiff as a board,
- autoimmune,
- disobey,
- immune,
- close-grained,
- stormy,
- Restiff,
- nonconforming,
- naughty,
- unfavourable,
- tempestuous,
- insurrectional,
- dogged,
- dead set on,
- nonobservant,
- daring,
- creakier,
- inflexible,
- dissident,
- uncomplying,
- dissentient,
- uncaring,
- rival,
- order,
- fidgety,
- opposite,
- adversary,
- unmalleable,
- conflicting,
- catching,
- freethinking,
- uninclined,
- termagant,
- stubborn,
- anarchic,
- staunch,
- wrong-headed,
- uncooperative,
- unsentimental,
- derelict,
- forced,
- pertinacious,
- snappish,
- misfortunate,
- hard-shelled,
- uncheerful,
- vexatious,
- quarrelsome,
- differing,
- stroppy,
- stony,
- vase,
- hardbitten,
- impede,
- sullen,
- at loggerheads,
- tenacious,
- hard-boiled,
- bloody-minded,
- insubmissive,
- impracticable,
- knotted,
- ceramics,
- involuntary,
- unregulated,
- cladding,
- hold,
- insurrectionist,
- complaining,
- bold,
- cement,
- refuse,
- con,
- froward,
- noisy,
- knotty,
- disinclined,
- peevish,
- unfaltering,
- defiant,
- repugnant,
- arthritic,
- at odds,
- balky,
- indomitable,
- set in one's ways,
- unwieldy,
- turncoat,
- labyrinthine,
- Rhadamanthine,
- incompressible,
- advanced,
- undisciplinable,
- harsh,
- independent,
- clay,
- resolved,
- indisciplined,
- glass,
- fight,
- rabble-rousing,
- rigid,
- intricate,
- determined,
- repel,
- stern,
- divisive,
- pot,
- obstreperous,
- opinionated,
- lining,
- firm,
- ruffianly,
- uncompliant,
- biscuit,
- rigorous,
- unconsenting,
- trackless,
- desperate,
- negative,
- defend,
- die hard,
- transgress,
- headstrong,
- peckish,
- defy,
- Disregardful,
- Overthwart,
- retardant,
- contrary,
- Contrariant,
- obstructive,
- unamenable,
- Starched,
- callous,
- steadfast,
- unfriendly,
- averse,
- pottery,
- incorrigible,
- unbending,
- opposed,
- strong-minded,
- antipathetic,
- seditions,
- out-of-order,
- unwilling,
- ornery,
- mulish,
- unconforming,
- Declinatory,
- oppositional,
- radical,
- cold,
- unwavering,
- Withstanding,
- unbendable,
- steely,
- contentious,
- clinical,
- Crossgrained,
- maladjusted,
- tough nut,
- Resty,
- Unrestrainable,
- leftist,
- thorny,
- Insuppressible,
- protesting,
- creaky,
- treacherous,
- pugnacious,
- counter,
- unpropitious,
- diligent,
- revolutionary,
- untoward,
- pigheaded,
- unvaried,
- indisposed,
- Incontrollable,
- unadaptable,
- asymptomatic,
- unfaithful,
- off top of head,
- fractious,
- china,
- up in arms,
- contrarious,
- rascally,
- peace,
- reject,
- wicked,
- alien,
- stiff-necked,
- single-minded,
- rheumatic,
- adobe,
- rampageous,
- insurrectionary,
- noncompliant,
- unsubmissive,
- hardnosed,
- Unpliable,
- demur,
- tile,
- troublemaking,
- shrewish,
- inured,
- firebrick,
- unvarying,
- counteract,
- Incompliant,
- Disaccordant,
- Objecting,
- unchangeable,
- factious,
- anarchistic,
- problem,
- hard core,
- self-willed,
- unflinching,
- forceful,
- Refusing,
- rebel,
- unswerving,
- troublesome,
- invariable,
- ill-behaved,
- acute,
- persevering,
- unshakable,
- mutinous,
- techy,
- liner,
- unfeeling,
- bull-headed,
- unshaken,
- fixed,
- unobliging,
- Pervicacious,
- without warning,
- strong,
- opinionative,
- uncompromising,
- congenital,
- strong-willed,
- unfavorable,
- insurgent,
- contumacious,
- precipitate,
- intransigent,
- unmoving,
- ungoverned,
- communicable,
- disagreeing,
- cursory,
- violent,
- resolute,
- trying,
- unwishful,
- jug,
- adversative,
- competitive,
- bullheaded,
- tumultuous,
- cross,
- Ultraist,
- opponent,
- mule,
- brazen,
- turbulent,
- hard shell,
- rugged,
- brick,
- wilful,
- subversive,
- resist,
- stiff,
- unanticipated,
- hard line,
- buckram,
- out-of-line,
- urn,
- set,
- enemy,
- badly behaved,
- fend,
- remiss,
- hostile,
- impossible,
- unsympathetic,
- control,
- balk,
- petulant,
- non-compliant,
- resistive,
- resistant,
- Renitent,
- undutiful,
- tough-nut,
- fireclay,
- tangled,
- unmanageable,
- disloyal,
- heady,
- Disputing,
- furnace lining,
- against the grain,
- disturbed,
- inflammatory,
- perverse,
- Infestive,
- recusant,
- sturdy,
- plaguy,
- unresponsive,
- ungovernable,
- immovable,
- wrongheaded,
- dissentious,
- hard to please,
- refractory,
- dare,
- Ungiving,
- recalcitrance,
- refractoriness,
- penitentiary,
- nonporous,
- tiling,
- adamant,
- crock,
- hardboiled,
- noncooperative,
- benign,
- opposing,
- unpredictable,
- antithetic,
- unrestrained,
- diehard,
- off-base,
- porcelain,
- hard-nosed,
- awkward,
- unready,
- dissenting,
- Unflexible,
- clashing,
- bad,
- restless,
- paradoxical,
- spunky,
- convoluted,
- recalcitrant,
- set in stone,
- uncontrolled,
- untamable,
- impatient,
- irrepressible,
- bowl,
- obstinate,
- riotous,
- lawless,
- contradictory,
- disagree,
- challenging,
- disorderly,
- oppositive,
- controvert,
- cantankerous,
- sulky,
- belligerent,
- endure,
- obdurate,
- discordant,
- locked-in,
- seditious,
- litigious,
- singleminded,
- deviant,
- Invious,
- Impliable,
- wild,
- enamel,
- tough,
- inimical,
- beyond control,
- cool,
- pathless,
- disobedient,
- unregenerate,
- antagonistic,
- perfunctory,
- anti,
- mischievous,
- hardened,
- antithetical,
- hopeless,
- persistent,
- Retardative.
Usage Examples for REFRACTORY
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Subsequently, at New York, one evening returning to my hotel, I heard a row in a tavern, and wishing to see the process of capturing refractory citizens, I entered with some other persons. - "A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America" by S. A. Ferrall
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We turned round and had the mortification of seeing her again go through the water, at which our elephant became refractory, wheeled about, and was so unsteady as to prevent us from firing. - "Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals" by R. Lee
