Search Result for "intransigent":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason;
- Example: "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"
- Example: "Cynthia was inexorable she would have none of him"- W.Churchill;
- Example: "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
[syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Intransigent \In*trans"i*gent\, a. [F. intransigeant (cf. Sp. intransigente); pref. in- not + L. transigere to come to an agreement; trans across + agere to lead, act.] Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable. --Lond. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "intransigent": adamant, adamantine, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, brawler, bullethead, cast-iron, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, dogmatist, donkey, dour, fanatic, firm, flinty, grim, hard, hard-core, hardnose, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigeant, iron, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigant, maverick, mule, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, perverse fool, pighead, plaintiff, positivist, protester, purist, quarreler, relentless, resister, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, scrapper, standpat, standpatter, steely, stern, stickler, stiff, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unyielding, wrangler
