Synonyms of the word

intractable

• adj. Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
• adj. (mathematics) Not able to be solved (of a mathematical problem).
• adj. Stubborn; obstinate (of a person).
• adj. (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).

balking

• v. present participle of balk.
• n. A frustration or disappointment; a check.

balky

• adj. Refusing to proceed or cooperate.

defiant

• adj. defying.
• adj. Boldly resisting opposition.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

disobedient

• adj. Not obedient.

noncompliant

• adj. Not compliant; rebellious.
• n. One who fails to comply, for example with a law.

obstinate

• adj. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
• adj. Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.

refractory

• adj. Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
• adj. Not affected by great heat.
• adj. (medicine) Difficult to treat.
• adj. (biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
• n. A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.

stubborn

• adj. Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.

uncontrollable

• adj. Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.

unmalleable

• adj. Not malleable.

unmanageable

• adj. Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or…

unregenerate

• adj. which cannot be transformed in mind and spirit.
• adj. stubborn.

untamed

• adj. Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.

wild

• adj. Untamed; not domesticated.
• adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
• adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
• adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
• adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
• adj. Enthusiastic.
• adj. Inaccurate.
• adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
• adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
• adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
• adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
• n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially…