Bad or depraved beyond correction or reform: of persons, their habits, etc.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1b.)

= contumacious, adj.

Of persons or animals: Pertinacious or dogged in refusing obedience or compliance; unyielding, inflexible, obstinate: chiefly in bad sense…

In bad sense: Obstinate, intractable, stubborn, rebellious. Obsolete.

= contumacious, adj.

figurative. Stubborn, unmanageable.

Indisposed to submit to guidance or command; restive, recalcitrant, indocile. Also const. to.

= intractable, adj. 1. (Common 1550–1800.)

Of persons and animals: Not to be guided; not manageable or docile; uncontrollable; refractory, stubborn.

Stubborn, obstinate.

Not open to counsel; unwilling to be advised.

Incapable of being taught or instructed; unteachable. Also indocible of.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1b.)

= refractory, adj.

Wild, unruly; uncontrolled, unrestrained. Now poetic.

Of persons: Not open to counsel.

= refractory, adj.

Contemning and obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse, insubordinate, rebellious. (Of persons and their actions.)

= refractorious, adj.

Obstinate, stubborn; unmanageable, rebellious. Of persons, animals, or something personified.

Difficult or impossible to control, govern, or regulate. Of a person or a person's character or disposition.

Unyielding, obstinate: disobedient, rebellious; uncivil.

Scottish. Stubborn, obstinate; rebellious; (also) not amenable or strongly opposed to. Cf. refractory, adj. 1 3. Obsolete. rare.

Thoroughly obstinate or stubborn; headstrong, wilful, refractory.

Not rectifiable; impossible to improve upon or correct.

= indocible, adj.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

= untractable, adj. 1.

Of persons: That cannot or will not be advised; not open to advice.

Esp. of a person or animal: obstinately disobedient; uncooperative, refractory; objecting to constraint or restriction. Also with to.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1b.)

= recalcitrant, adj. 1.