Synonyms of the word

noncompliant

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

balker

• n. One who, or that which balks.
• n. A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the…

baulker

• n. Someone who baulks.

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.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

insubordinate

• adj. Rebellious or defiant to authority.
• adj. Contumacious.

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).

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

obstreperous

• adj. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
• adj. Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

recalcitrant

• adj. Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.
• adj. Unwilling to cooperate socially.
• adj. Difficult to deal with or to operate.
• adj. (botany, of seed, pollen, spores) Not viable for an extended period; damaged by drying or freezing.
• n. A person who is recalcitrant.

resistant

• n. A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
• n. A thing which resists.
• adj. Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
• adj. Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature,…
• adj. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.

resistive

• adj. (physics) Resisting the passage of electrical current.
• adj. Tending to resist.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

unmanageable

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

unwilling

• adj. Not willing; reluctant.