Related Words:
- 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" related words >
- afraid,
- ambling,
- antagonistic,
- apathetic,
- averse,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- complaining,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- disinclined,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- easy,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- fractious,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- grudging,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indifferent,
- indisposed,
- indolent,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loath,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposed,
- perfunctory,
- poking,
- poky,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- relaxed,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- sauntering,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncooperative,
- uneager,
- unenthusiastic,
- unhurried,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- unzealous,
- up in arms,
- waddling,
- wary,
- withstanding
- uncooperative
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- unwilling to cooperate; "an uncooperative witness" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- clashing,
- competitive,
- complaining,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- counter,
- cross,
- deaf to,
- declinatory,
- disaccordant,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- disregardful,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- enemy,
- fanatic,
- forgetful,
- fractious,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- heedless,
- hostile,
- inconsiderate,
- indocile,
- inimical,
- insubordinate,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- mindless,
- mulish,
- negative,
- nonconsenting,
- noncooperating,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opinionated,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- overthwart,
- overzealous,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- rejective,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- respectless,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- rival,
- self-willed,
- set,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- thoughtless,
- unaccommodating,
- uncomplaisant,
- uncompliant,
- uncomplying,
- unconsenting,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- unheedful,
- unhelpful,
- unmindful,
- unobliging,
- unpropitious,
- unregenerate,
- unsubmissive,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- willful,
- withstanding
- refractory
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- temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber"
- not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- beyond control,
- breachy,
- bullheaded,
- china,
- clashing,
- clay,
- competitive,
- complaining,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- counter,
- cross,
- cursory,
- defiant,
- deviant,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- enamel,
- enemy,
- forced,
- fractious,
- headstrong,
- hostile,
- impatient of control,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inimical,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- involuntary,
- irrepressible,
- mulish,
- mutinous,
- negative,
- nonconformable,
- nonconforming,
- noncooperative,
- nonobservant,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- ornery,
- out of hand,
- overthwart,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- porcelain,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- recusant,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- rival,
- self-willed,
- shrewish,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- unadaptable,
- unadjustable,
- unbiddable,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unpropitious,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- wild,
- withstanding
- bigoted
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- blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view" related words >
- Sabbatarian,
- authoritarian,
- balking,
- balky,
- biased,
- bigot,
- borne,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- closed,
- conceited,
- conservative,
- constricted,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- doctrinaire,
- doctrinarian,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- dogmatizing,
- evangelical,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- fanatic,
- fanatical,
- fundamentalist,
- haggard,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- illiberal,
- inordinate,
- insular,
- intolerant,
- irrational,
- jaundiced,
- lily-white,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mulish,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- obstinate,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- opinionative,
- opinioned,
- oracular,
- overenthusiastic,
- overreligious,
- overzealous,
- parochial,
- partial,
- peremptory,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- petty,
- pigheaded,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- positivistic,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- prejudiced,
- pronunciative,
- provincial,
- purblind,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanical,
- rabid,
- restive,
- self-opinionated,
- self-opinioned,
- self-willed,
- set,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- staunch,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- ultrazealous,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncooperative,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unreasonable,
- unregenerate,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- willful,
- zealotic
- indomitable
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- impossible to subdue related words >
- assiduous,
- beyond control,
- brave,
- breachy,
- constant,
- continuing,
- contumacious,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- defiant,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fearless,
- fractious,
- immutable,
- impassable,
- impenetrable,
- impregnable,
- inalterable,
- incontestable,
- incorrigible,
- indefatigable,
- indocile,
- industrious,
- inexpugnable,
- insistent,
- insuperable,
- insuppressible,
- insurmountable,
- intractable,
- intrepid,
- invincible,
- inviolable,
- invulnerable,
- irrepressible,
- irresistible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mettlesome,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- out of hand,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plucky,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- relentless,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- restive,
- sedulous,
- shrewish,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stubborn,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unafraid,
- unassailable,
- unbeatable,
- unbiddable,
- unconquerable,
- uncontrollable,
- undaunted,
- undefeatable,
- undisciplined,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- ungovernable,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unruly,
- unsleeping,
- unstoppable,
- unsubduable,
- unsubmissive,
- unsurmountable,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- wild
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- anguished,
- anxious,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bitching,
- bored,
- bottomless,
- cheerless,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- concupiscent,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- depressed,
- devouring,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- disgusted,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- ejaculatory,
- envious,
- esurient,
- faultfinding,
- gluttonous,
- goatish,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- grim,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hoggish,
- horny,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- itching,
- joyless,
- lascivious,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- limitless,
- lustful,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- omnivorous,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- out of humor,
- overgreedy,
- passionate,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piggish,
- pleasureless,
- prey to malaise,
- prurient,
- quenchless,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- randy,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- rebellious,
- repelled,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- sad,
- salacious,
- sex-starved,
- sexy,
- sickened,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- steamy,
- suffering angst,
- sulky,
- swinish,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unquenchable,
- unquiet,
- unsated,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- whiny
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- armed with patience,
- assiduous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- committed,
- constant,
- continuing,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- diligent,
- disciplined,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- earnest,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- forbearing,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- indulgent,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- intolerant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- lenient,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- philosophical,
- pigheaded,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- purposeful,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- restive,
- sedulous,
- self-controlled,
- self-willed,
- serious,
- set,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff-necked,
- stoic,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- understanding,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- wholehearted,
- willful
- dogged
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- 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" related words >
- adamant,
- assiduous,
- badgered,
- baited,
- balking,
- balky,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bigoted,
- bugged,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- bullyragged,
- case-hardened,
- chivied,
- constant,
- continuing,
- deviled,
- diligent,
- dogmatic,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fretted,
- harassed,
- hardheaded,
- harried,
- haunted,
- headstrong,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexorable,
- insistent,
- intolerant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- needled,
- never-tiring,
- nipped at,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- persecuted,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- pigheaded,
- plagued,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- ragged,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- restive,
- rigid,
- sedulous,
- self-willed,
- set,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- teased,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tormented,
- unabating,
- unbending,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vexed,
- weariless,
- willful,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- dogmatic
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- 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 related words >
- Sabbatarian,
- a priori,
- antiblack,
- arbitrary,
- arrogant,
- assertive,
- assured,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- balking,
- balky,
- believing,
- biased,
- bigoted,
- blind,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- canonical,
- case-hardened,
- categorical,
- certain,
- chauvinistic,
- colored,
- conceited,
- confessional,
- confident,
- convinced,
- creedal,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deducible,
- derivable,
- devout,
- dictatorial,
- doctrinaire,
- doctrinal,
- doctrinarian,
- dogged,
- dogmatizing,
- domineering,
- doubtless,
- emphatic,
- evangelical,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fideistic,
- fundamentalist,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- imperious,
- impressed with,
- influenced,
- insistent,
- interested,
- intolerant,
- jaundiced,
- know-nothing,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- magisterial,
- mulish,
- nonobjective,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- opinionative,
- opinioned,
- oracular,
- overbearing,
- overzealous,
- partial,
- partisan,
- peremptory,
- persevering,
- persuaded,
- pertinacious,
- pietistic,
- pigheaded,
- pious,
- pistic,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- positivistic,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- prejudiced,
- prepossessed,
- pronunciative,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanical,
- pushy,
- racist,
- reasoned,
- restive,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-opinionated,
- self-opinioned,
- self-willed,
- set,
- sexist,
- sold on,
- staunch,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- superpatriotic,
- sure,
- swayed,
- tenacious,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- uncooperative,
- under the impression,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- unpersuadable,
- unregenerate,
- warped,
- willful,
- xenophobic
- assiduous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- constant,
- continuing,
- crying,
- demanding,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- draining,
- enduring,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fixed,
- game,
- gamy,
- grasping,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- immutable,
- importunate,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intolerant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loud,
- loyal,
- mettlesome,
- mulish,
- nervy,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- plodding,
- plucky,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- pressing,
- rapt,
- red-blooded,
- refractory,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- restive,
- sedulous,
- self-willed,
- set,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- taxing,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tough,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unshakable,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- urgent,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- willful
- fractious
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- unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- bearish,
- beyond control,
- bitchy,
- breachy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- clashing,
- competitive,
- complaining,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- counter,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cursory,
- cussed,
- defiant,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- enemy,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- forced,
- fretful,
- hostile,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- impatient of control,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inimical,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- involuntary,
- irascible,
- irrepressible,
- irritable,
- mean,
- mutinous,
- negative,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- ornery,
- out of hand,
- overthwart,
- peevish,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- querulous,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- rival,
- shrewish,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- testy,
- ugly,
- unbiddable,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- undisciplined,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unpropitious,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- waspish,
- wild,
- withstanding
- advised,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- calculated,
- case-hardened,
- conscious,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- contumacious,
- decided,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- designed,
- determined,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- disobedient,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- elective,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- factious,
- fanatic,
- free,
- free will,
- froward,
- gratuitous,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- heady,
- independent,
- indisciplined,
- insubordinate,
- intended,
- intentional,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- irresponsible,
- knowing,
- lawless,
- licentious,
- meant,
- meditated,
- mulish,
- mutinous,
- naughty,
- nonconforming,
- nonmandatory,
- obstinate,
- of design,
- offered,
- opinionated,
- optional,
- overzealous,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- planned,
- proffered,
- projected,
- proposed,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- rampant,
- recusant,
- reinless,
- resolved,
- restive,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- self-willed,
- set,
- spontaneous,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- studied,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- teleological,
- tenacious,
- transgressive,
- unaccountable,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- unbridled,
- uncalled-for,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- uncomplying,
- uncontrolled,
- uncooperative,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- unduteous,
- undutiful,
- unforced,
- ungoverned,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unregenerate,
- unreined,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unrestrained,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- violative,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- wayward,
- wildcat,
- willing,
- witting,
- wrongheaded
- skittish
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- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) related words >
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- animated,
- antic,
- bashful,
- capersome,
- changeable,
- coltish,
- combustible,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coquettish,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- delicate,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dizzy,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty-headed,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- exuberant,
- faddish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fickle,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- frisky,
- frivolous,
- frolicsome,
- full of beans,
- gamesome,
- gay,
- giddy,
- goosy,
- harebrained,
- hearty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- inconstant,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irresponsible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jumpy,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perturbable,
- playful,
- prickly,
- quicksilver,
- rabbity,
- rattlebrained,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restive,
- rollicking,
- rollicksome,
- rompish,
- scary,
- scatterbrained,
- self-conscious,
- sensitive,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- spirited,
- sportive,
- sprightly,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- toying,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- undependable,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- vacillating,
- versatile,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- zestful,
- zippy
- faultfinding
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- persistent petty and unjustified criticism related words >
- Jeremianic,
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- beef,
- beefing,
- bellyache,
- bellyaching,
- bitch,
- bitching,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- complaining,
- complaint,
- complaintful,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- criticism,
- croaking,
- cynical,
- destructive criticism,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- dissent,
- envious,
- exception,
- flak,
- fretful,
- grievance,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groan,
- groaning,
- grouchy,
- grouse,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hairsplitting,
- hit,
- holler,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- howl,
- howling,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- kick,
- kicking,
- knock,
- lamentive,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- out of humor,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- peeve,
- peevish,
- peevishness,
- pestering,
- pet peeve,
- pettifogging,
- petulance,
- petulant,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- priggishness,
- protest,
- puling,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- querulousness,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- rebellious,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- scolding,
- slam,
- sniping,
- sorrowful,
- squawk,
- squawking,
- stricture,
- sulky,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- ultracritical,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unsatisfied,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- yapping
- nervy
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- showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers" related words >
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- beefy,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bold,
- bouncing,
- brash,
- bulldoggish,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- derisive,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- disrespectful,
- disturbed,
- doughty,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- facy,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flip,
- flippant,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- forward,
- fresh,
- frightened,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gally,
- game,
- gamy,
- goosey,
- gratuitous,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- high-strung,
- husky,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- iron-hard,
- irritable,
- jerky,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lusty,
- malapert,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- obstinate,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- pert,
- pertinacious,
- perturbed,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- restive,
- restless,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rude,
- ruffled,
- rugged,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spooky,
- spunky,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stirred up,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- tough,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- uncalled-for,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- wise-ass
- agog,
- ardent,
- at fever pitch,
- authoritarian,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- burning,
- case-hardened,
- closed,
- compulsive,
- constricted,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- delirious,
- distracted,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- enthusiastic,
- excessive,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- fanatic,
- febrile,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- furious,
- haggard,
- hard-core,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- heated,
- hectic,
- hidebound,
- hot,
- hotheaded,
- hysteric,
- illiberal,
- immoderate,
- infatuated,
- inflamed,
- inordinate,
- insane,
- insular,
- intolerant,
- irrational,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mad,
- madcap,
- maniacal,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- monomaniacal,
- mulish,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- obsessive,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overanxious,
- overdesirous,
- overdevout,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overreligious,
- overrighteous,
- overzealous,
- parochial,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- petty,
- pigheaded,
- provincial,
- purblind,
- rabid,
- red-hot,
- restive,
- sanctimonious,
- scorching,
- self-willed,
- set,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- totally committed,
- ultrareligious,
- ultrazealous,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncooperative,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unreasonable,
- unregenerate,
- white-hot,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- willful,
- zealotic,
- zealous
- anxious
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- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" related words >
- aching,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alarmed,
- all agog,
- all-overish,
- anguished,
- animated,
- annoyed,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- avid,
- beset,
- bored,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- concerned,
- depressed,
- desirous,
- disgusted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- full of life,
- grim,
- harassed,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- ill at ease,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- importunate,
- in a lather,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- keen,
- keyed-up,
- lively,
- longing,
- misgiving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- panting,
- perturbed,
- plagued,
- pleasureless,
- pressing,
- prey to malaise,
- prompt,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quick,
- quivering,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- repelled,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- sad,
- scared,
- scary,
- sickened,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- strained,
- suffering angst,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- terrified,
- thirsty,
- troubled,
- uncertain,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- upset,
- urgent,
- vexed,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wary,
- watchful,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- worried,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful
- recalcitrant
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- marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators" related words >
- adamant,
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- beyond control,
- bouncing,
- bounding,
- breachy,
- breakaway,
- clashing,
- competitive,
- complaining,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- counter,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- cursory,
- defiant,
- deviant,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- enemy,
- firm,
- forced,
- fractious,
- headstrong,
- hostile,
- immovable,
- impatient of control,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inflexible,
- inimical,
- insubordinate,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- involuntary,
- irrepressible,
- mutinous,
- negative,
- nonconformable,
- nonconforming,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- nonobservant,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- ornery,
- out of hand,
- overthwart,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- rebellious,
- rebounding,
- recoiling,
- recusant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repercussive,
- repugnant,
- resilient,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- revolutionary,
- rival,
- shrewish,
- springing,
- stiff,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- unadaptable,
- unadjustable,
- unbending,
- unbiddable,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- undisciplined,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unpropitious,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- untoward,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- wayward,
- wild,
- withstanding
- excited
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- in an aroused state related words >
- ablaze,
- active,
- afire,
- aflame,
- agitated,
- agog,
- animated,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- aquiver,
- ardent,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- attracted,
- atwitter,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- brisk,
- burning,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- cathectic,
- chafing,
- concerned,
- cordial,
- curious,
- delighted,
- delirious,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- drunk,
- eager,
- ebullient,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- elated,
- electrified,
- energetic,
- energized,
- enthusiastic,
- exhilarated,
- exuberant,
- fascinated,
- febrile,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- fiery,
- fired,
- flaming,
- flurried,
- flushed,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- galvanized,
- glowing,
- hasty,
- hearty,
- heated,
- high,
- hopped up,
- hopped-up,
- hot,
- hysterical,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflamed,
- intense,
- interested,
- intoxicated,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- keen,
- keen on,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- lively,
- manic,
- moved,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on fire,
- overwrought,
- passionate,
- perturbed,
- pink,
- piqued,
- ready to burst,
- red-hot,
- restive,
- restless,
- roused,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- steamed up,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- tantalized,
- thrilled,
- tickled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- titillated,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- turned on,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestrained,
- upset,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- warm,
- whipped up,
- worked up,
- wound up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty,
- zealous
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