intransigent
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Refusing to change one’s position.
Talks collapsed against an intransigent minority.
Law adjective
Refusing to compromise or change one's position.
The buyer remained intransigent, rejecting every figure the mediator floated.
Business adjective
Refusing to compromise or abandon an entrenched position.
Both sides remained intransigent, and the negotiation collapsed into stalemate.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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