Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - recalcitrant
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Recalcitrant
recalcitrant
If you describe someone or something as recalcitrant, you mean that they are unwilling to obey orders or are difficult to deal with. (FORMAL) The danger is that recalcitrant local authorities will reject their responsibilities... = stubborn ADJ: usu ADJ n • recalcitrance ...the government’s recalcitrance over introducing even the smallest political reform. = stubbornness N-UNCOUNT
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adjective Etymology: Late Latin ~-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel Date: 1843 1. obstinately defiant of authority or restraint 2. a. difficult to manage or operate b. not responsive to treatment c. resistant this subject is ~ both to observation and to experiment — G. G. Simpson Synonyms: see unruly • ~ noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 obstinately disobedient. 2 objecting to restraint. --n. a recalcitrant person. Derivatives recalcitrance n. recalcitrantly adv. Etymology: L recalcitrare (as RE-, calcitrare kick out with the heels f. calx calcis heel) RECALCULATE v.tr. calculate again. Derivatives recalculation n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. книж. бунтарь, непокорный человек; упрямец; человек с норовом 2. непокорный, непослушный; упорствующий в неподчинении; норовистый recalcitrant child —- непослушный ребенок 3. неподатливый, не поддающийся (воздействию) recalcitrant material —- неподатливый материал recalcitrant forms of disease —- формы болезни, не поддающиеся лечению ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adj. непокорный; упорный; упорствующий в неподчинении (чему-л.) Syn: see unruly 2. noun непокорный человек ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ adj formal refusing to do what you are told to do, even after you have been punished (recalcitrant children) - recalcitrantly adv - recalcitrance n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1843, from Fr. rйcalcitrant, pp. of recalcitrare "to kick back," from re- "back" + L. calcitrare "to kick," from calx (gen. calcis) "heel." Verb recalcitrate "to kick out" is attested from 1623; sense of "resist obstinately" is from 1759. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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