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disposed to acquiesce or consent tacitly. |
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complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, esp. in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
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manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usu. used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers. |
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easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
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readily trained or taught; teachable. |
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persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious: a dogged worker. |
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of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal.
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asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated. |
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refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
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readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man. |
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willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child. |
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narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
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oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative: a hidebound philosopher.
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(of a horse, cow, etc.) having the back and ribs bound tightly by the hide. |
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not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
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(of things) hard to shape or work with: an intractable metal.
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hard to treat, relieve, or cure: the intractable pain in his leg. |
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not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating. |
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capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers.
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adaptable or tractable: the malleable mind of a child. |
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unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
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stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner. |
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firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
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characterized by inflexible persistence or an unyielding attitude; inflexibly persisted in or carried out: obstinate advocacy of high tariffs.
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not easily controlled or overcome: the obstinate growth of weeds.
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not yielding readily to treatment, as a disease. |
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holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
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stubborn or obstinate.
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extremely or objectionably persistent: a pertinacious salesman from whom I could not escape. |
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easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
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easily influenced or persuaded; yielding: the pliable mind of youth.
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adjusting readily to change; adaptable. |
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resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
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hard to deal with, manage, or operate.
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a recalcitrant person. |
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hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
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resisting ordinary methods of treatment.
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difficult to fuse, reduce, or work, as an ore or metal.
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a material having the ability to retain its physical shape and chemical identity when subjected to high temperatures.
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refractories, bricks of various shapes used in lining furnaces. |
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firm in purpose or intent; determined. |
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slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
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characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience.
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yielding slavishly; truckling (usually fol. by to).
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extremely imitative, esp. in the arts; lacking in originality.
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being in slavery; oppressed.
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of, pertaining to, or involving slaves or servants.
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of or pertaining to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held as a slave or as partially enslaved: medieval rebellions against servile laws. |
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inclined or ready to submit; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
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marked by or indicating submission: a submissive reply. |
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holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often fol. by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
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highly retentive: a tenacious memory.
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pertinacious, persistent, stubborn, or obstinate.
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adhesive or sticky; viscous or glutinous.
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holding together; cohesive; not easily pulled asunder; tough. |
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–adjective,-li·er, -li·est.
not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness. |
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–verb (used without object),-lat·ed, -lat·ing.
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to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
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to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger.
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to oscillate or fluctuate. |
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lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
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washy or watery, as a liquid; thin and weak. |
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inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
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tending to give way, esp. under pressure; flexible; supple; pliable: a yielding mattress.
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(of a crop, soil, etc.) producing a yield; productive. |
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