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Exact Match:

balking: stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer"

Synonyms:

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Related Words:

loath collapse: unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"; "unwilling to face facts"

grudging collapse: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"; of especially an attitude; "gave grudging consent"; "grudging acceptance of his opponent's victory"

thwarting collapse

pigheaded collapse

unenthusiastic collapse: not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor; "an unenthusiastic performance by the orchestra"; "unenthusiastic applause"

disinclined collapse: unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval; "disinclined to say anything to anybody"

bulldogged collapse

headstrong collapse

bullheaded collapse: obstinate and stupid

unregenerate collapse: not reformed morally or spiritually; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism"

mulish collapse

dilatory collapse: wasting time; inclined to waste time and lag behind

stiff necked collapse

opinionated collapse: obstinate in your opinions

self-willed collapse

bafflement collapse

intolerant collapse: unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

renitent collapse

hardheaded collapse: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

frustration collapse: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts; a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"; the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

strong willed collapse

overzealous collapse

case hardened collapse

checkmate collapse: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king; complete victory; place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

perfunctory collapse

laggard collapse

reluctant collapse: not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"; unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"

uncooperative collapse: unwilling to cooperate; "an uncooperative witness"

bigoted collapse: blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

persevering collapse

dogged collapse: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

dogmatic collapse: characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

pertinacious collapse

willful collapse

prevention collapse: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

discomfiture collapse: anxious embarrassment

fanatical collapse

balk collapse: an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base; the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"

restive collapse: impatient especially under restriction or delay; "the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive"

sullen collapse

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