- renitent
- Synonyms and related words:antagonistic, antipathetic, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, breakaway, clashing, complaining, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, crotchety, dilatory, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, firm, fractious, grudging, hostile, indifferent, inimical, laggard, loath, nonconformist, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, perfunctory, perverse, pokerlike, proof against, protesting, ramrodlike, reactionary, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, repellent, repugnant, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, revolutionary, rigid, rodlike, slow, slow to, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, taut, tense, tight, uncooperative, unenthusiastic, unrelaxed, unsubmissive, unyielding, unzealous, up in arms, virgate, withstanding
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.