refractoryadjective
uk/rɪˈfræk.tər.i/us/rɪˈfræk.tər.i/specialized medical, science not affected by a treatment, change, or process:
This is a chronic and disabling condition that is refractory to treatment.
formal difficult to control; unwilling to obey:
a refractory child
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Not able to be changed
- a leopard can't/doesn't change its spots idiom
- be no hard and fast rules idiom
- burn your boats/bridges idiom
- congenital
- continuity
- fixed
- fixity
- hard line
- hard line
- immutable
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreducible
- irremediable
- irreparable
- irretrievable
- ossify
- stuck
- uncompromising
- what's done is done idiom
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Disobedient
Causing difficulties for oneself or others