recalcitrant
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Stubbornly resistant to authority, discipline or control.
The recalcitrant pupil refused every reasonable request from his teachers.
Law adjective
Stubbornly resistant to cooperation or authority.
A recalcitrant party who ignores the tribunal's directions risks an adverse costs order.
Business adjective
Stubbornly resistant to authority, guidance or control.
A handful of recalcitrant managers quietly sabotaged the change programme.
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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