refractoriness

Examples

• All

• The dog's refractoriness to obey commands frustrated its owner, who had tried various training techniques.

• We believe that the low rate of refractoriness observed in our study (10%) is due to the use of single-donor platelets rather than to the lower number of transfusions.

  Academic text (1992)

• Women are deficient in intelligence. The majority of the inhabitants of Hell are women, those wives whose refractoriness ye fear; exhort them, and avoid them in beds, and beat them; and even Muhammad's favorite wife stated...

  Blog text (21)

• The teacher struggled with the students' refractoriness, finding it hard to maintain discipline in the classroom.

• His refractoriness during the meeting made it difficult for the team to reach a consensus on the project.

Synonyms

O

obstinacy

vsrefractoriness

3 7.6

Refusing to change your mind or actions even when others ask you to

is less about simple stubbornness and more about resisting external control

I

inflexibility

vsrefractoriness

3 6.9

Refusing to change ideas or plans

highlights resisting management or control rather than mere lack of flexibility

R

recalcitrance

vsrefractoriness

• Formal

2 8.8

Refusal to obey rules or cooperate with people in charge

applies more broadly to resistant or unmanageable behavior beyond authority conflicts

F

fractiousness

vsrefractoriness

1 9.9

A tendency to be easily annoyed and hard to control

places stress on deliberate resistance rather than on mere irritability or mood

U

unmanageableness

vsrefractoriness

9.6

A situation or thing that people cannot control

is about active resistant behavior rather than only the general state

I

intractableness

vsrefractoriness

9.9

The quality of being very difficult to manage or control

focuses more on resistant behavior than on general difficulty to handle

R

recalcitrancy

vsrefractoriness

• Formal

9.7

Refusing to follow rules or orders

is broader, covering resistance to control in many contexts, not only authority

Antonyms

M

manageable

57 3.2

Easy to deal with

C

compliant

31 5.1

Willing to follow rules or do what other people want

How Unmanageable

uncontrollability

1 8.6

intractability

1 9.6

refractoriness

• Formal

9.9

stubbornness

21 3.6

resistance

214 4.0

reluctance

68 3.6

compliance

171 5.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology