intransigent
Plural: intransigents
Adjective Satellite
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; ; - W.Churchill
- "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
Adj
- Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable.
Noun
- A person who is intransigent.
Examples
- Don't waste your time trying to change his mind: he's completely intransigent.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French intransigeant, from Spanish intransigente, from Latin in- (“un-, not”) + trānsigēns, present participle of trānsigō (“to come to an understanding”), from trāns (“across”) + agō (“to do”).
Synonyms
adamant, adamantine, inexorable, ardent, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, irrefragable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
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