intractableness
61disobedience — n 1. noncompliance, nonobservance; intractableness, indocility, insubmission; stubbornness, perverseness, contumacy, obstinacy; waywardness, unruliness, forwardness; defiance, insubordination, disregard, indiscipline; neglect, negligence,… …
62impetuosity — n 1. hastiness, abruptness, precipi tateness, impetuousness; rashness, temerity, recklessness, boldness, brashness, foolhardiness; impulsiveness, thoughtlessness, offhandedness, heedlessness, incaution; hot bloodedness, excitability,… …
63insubordination — n 1. defiance, defiantness, rebelliousness, mutinousness, insurrectionalism, revolu tionariness, seditiousness, insurgence, riotousness. 2. rebellion, insurrection, mutiny, revolt, uprising, revolution, sedition, insurgency; riot, disorder,… …
64intractability — n 1. intractableness, indocility, unsubmissiveness, insubmission, incompliance, incompli ancy, uncooperativeness, nonconformity; stubbornness, obstinateness, obstinacy, pervicaciousness, pig head edness, mulishness, obdurateness, hard headedness …
65perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,… …
66intractable — /ɪnˈtræktəbəl / (say in traktuhbuhl) adjective 1. not docile; stubborn: an intractable disposition. 2. (of things) hard to deal with; unmanageable. {in 3 + tractable} –intractability /ɪnˌtræktəˈbɪləti/ (say in.traktuh biluhtee), intractableness,… …
67defiance — [n] disobedience, disregard affront, audacity, back talk*, big talk*, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts* …
68disobedience — [n] misbehavior; noncompliance with rules defiance, dereliction, disregard, indiscipline, infraction, infringement, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, intractableness, mutiny, neglect, nonobservance, perversity, rebellion, recalcitrance,… …
69intractable — [in trak′tə bəl] adj. [L intractabilis] not tractable; specif., a) hard to manage; unruly or stubborn b) hard to work, manipulate, cure, treat, etc. intractability n. intractableness intractably adv …
70balkiness — noun likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly (Freq. 1) • Derivationally related forms: ↑balky • Hypernyms: ↑intractability, ↑intractableness …
