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81difficult — a. 1. Hard, arduous, Herculean, uphill, beset with difficulty. 2. Obscure, hard to be understood, intricate, perplexing. 3. Austere, rigid, unyielding, unaccommodating, uncompliant, hard to manage or persuade. 4. Fastidious, dainty, squeamish,… …
82self-willed — a. Wilful, dogged, obstinate, uncompliant, contumacious, headstrong, stubborn …
83difficult — adj 1. hard, laborious, arduous, strenuous, rough, Sl. hell of a; toilsome, wearisome, troublesome, bothersome, irksome; tough, Herculean, Augean, demanding, formidable; trying, uphill, exhausting, painful; burdensome, oppressive, onerous,… …
84inelastic — adj 1. inflexible, unflexible, unbendable, unpliant, irresilient, inductile, flaccid, flabby; stiff, rigid, hard, unyielding, unretractable; firm, tense, unmalleable, unlimber, Inf. stiff as a poker, Inf. out of condition. 2. unadaptable,… …
85inflexible — adj 1. rigid, stiff, unbendable, unad justable, hard, unyielding, unretractable; firm, tense, unmalleable, unlimber, Inf. stiff as a poker, Inf. out of condition. 2. immovable, Inf. hard as nails, Inf. stiff as a ramrod; unadaptable,… …
86insubordinate — adj 1. unsubordinate, defiant, rebellious; insurrectional, mutinous, revolting, seditious, insurgent, riotous, revolutionary; anarchistic, lawless. 2. disobedient, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomplying,… …
87intractable — 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,… …
88mulish — 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,… …
89negative — adj 1. nullifying, voiding, disannulling, annulling, canceling, revocatory; quashing, invalidating, vitiating, vacating, disenacting; forbidding, prohibiting, proscribing, disapproving; denying, contradicting, gainsaying, traversing. 2. opposed,… …
90restive — adj 1. restless, uneasy, nervous, unquiet, impatient. See restless(def. 2). 2. refractory, fractious, disobedient, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomply ing, uncompliant, noncompliant, noncooperative, uncooperative;… …
