Not submissive or compliant; intractable, disobedient. Frequently const. to.

= unbuxom, adj. 1.

Hard to manage, intractable, refractory; rebellious, disobedient. Obsolete.

Not under, or not submitting to, control or restraint; taking, or disposed to take, one's own way… Resisting control or restraint, unruly…

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

Not ready or willing; disobedient. Obsolete.

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

Foolish, stupid; mentally confused or disordered. Also: perverse, obstinate, intractable; awry.

figurative. Stubborn, unmanageable.

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

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

transferred. Of animals and inanimate things: Obstinate, refractory; stubborn, unyielding.

Of a person: stubbornly refusing to advance; resisting control, intractable, refractory, unmanageable. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. re…

Unwilling or unapt to be taught; not readily submitting to instruction or guidance; intractable.

Refusing to go forward, refractory, resisting control. Later also: restless, fidgety. Cf. restive, adj.… Of a person. Also as adv. (cf. to run restive…

(a) restive or ungovernable, like a horse whose mouth is irritated by the bit (obsolete); (b) colloquial characterized by angry or abusive speech…

Unyielding, obstinate: disobedient, rebellious; uncivil.

= intractable, adj.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1b.)

Characterized by erratic or adverse behaviour arising from discontent, disquiet, etc. Cf. restiff, adj.… Of a person or (occasionally) a thing…

Failing or refusing to comply.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Not yielding or disposed to yield to the desires or requests of others; unaccommodating, unsubmissive, uncompliant.

Uncooperative, grudging; recalcitrant.

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

(un-, prefix1 affix 1b.)

dialect ? Not amenable to control, intractable; full of spirits, boisterous.

= recalcitrant, adj. 1.

Kicking; that ‘kicks’ at any restriction. Cf. recalcitrant, adj. n.

Not cooperative; practising or relating to non-cooperation.

Chiefly in predicative use. Requiring to be restrained, as with a rope; intractable, wild; violently angry.

Not cooperating; practising non-cooperation.

(a) = Bolshevik, adj. (b) transferred and figurative. Left-wing; uncooperative, recalcitrant.