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Definition: Recalcitrance |
RecalcitranceNoun1. The trait of being unmanageable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: RecalcitranceSynonyms: recalcitrancy (n), refractoriness (n), unmanageableness (n). (additional references) |
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Economic History | Lithuania | In an effort to reduce the size and recalcitrance of a government bureaucracy allegedly impeding reform, in April 1992 then-Prime Minister Vagnorius unsuccessfully attempted to enact a measure permitting the dismissal of former Communist party members and of those unwilling to enforce government decrees. (references) |
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| "Recalcitrance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Recalcitrance" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "recalcitrance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mosbindje (contumacy, defiance, disobedience, insubordination), kundërshtim (censure, challenge, contradiction, contrast, demur, demurrer, deprecation, dispraise, exception, kick, objection, obtestation, opposition, protest, reaction, rebellion, rebuff, rebuttal, retort, return, set down, Stonewall, stonewalling), kokëfortësi (contrariness, intractability, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, stubbornness, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشوز (disobedience, prominence), عصيان (bawdiness, contempt, disobedience, insurgence, insurgency, rebel, rebellion, revolt, riot), جموح (defiance, disobedience, lawlessness, stubborn), التمرد (insubordination), العناد (implacability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | непокорство (contumacy, disobedience, insubordination, refractoriness), неподатливост (impracticability, insusceptibility, intolerance), недисциплинираност (indiscipline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svéhlavost (obstinacy, persistence, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کله شقی , تمرد (Contumacy, Rebellion), سرکشی (Contumacy, Rebellion), جواب رد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rébellion (rebel, rebellion, revolt), insoumission, esprit récalcitrant, caractère récalcitrant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Widerspenstigkeit (contrariness, contumacy, intractability, obstinacy, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, willfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανυποταξία (insubordination, rebelliousness, refractoriness, unruliness), δυστροπία (biliousness, crabbedness, crustiness, grouchiness, moroseness, orneriness, peevishness, perversity, pettishness, recalcitrancy, surliness, testiness, waspishness, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סרב ות (obstinacy, stubbornness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ellenszegülés (defiance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuwooiys (discontentment, repugnance), kione-daanys (determination, doggedness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-will, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecalcitranceray teimosia (contumacy, insistent, mulishness, obdurate, obstinacy, persistent, pertinacity, perversity, stubbornness), obstinação (industrial, Mull, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perversive, refractoriness, self will, stubbornness, tenacity), espírito rebelde. (various references) упорство (doggedness, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, recalcitrancy, stubbornness, tenacity), непокорность (rebelliousness, recalcitrancy). (various references) obest (prank), neposlušnost (contumacy, disobedience, insubordination). (various references) terquedad de paso (stubbornness), obstinación (obduracy, obstinacy, perverseness, perversity, refractoriness, stubbornness). (various references) motspänstighet. (various references) söz dinlemezlik, inatçılık (contrariness, cussedness, dourness, hardness, indocility, intractability, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, perversity, refractoriness, restiveness, self will, stickiness, stiff neck, stiffness, stubbornness, toughness, waywardness, wilfulness, willfulness), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references) упертість (contrariness, contumacy, induration, intractability, jib, non-compliance, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, perversity, piggishness, tenacity), непокірність (insubordination, non-compliance, nonconformity, non-obedience, refractoriness). (various references) tính ngoan cố (egoism, frowardness, pertainciousness, pertinacity, recalcitration, tenaciousness, tenacity, wilfulness), tính hay chống lại (recalcitration), tính hay câi lại (recalcitration), tính cứng đầu cứng cổ (cussedness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, mulishness, obstinacy, pertainciousness, pertinacity, recalcitration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recalcitrance": recalcitrances. (additional references) | |
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"Recalcitrance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recalcitran, recalitrance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recalcitrance" (pronounced rika"lsutruns) |
| 5 | -t r u n s | entrance. |
| 4 | -r u n s | abhorrence, adherence, appearance, assurance, circumference, Clarence, clearance, coherence, disappearance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, hindrance, incoherence, insurance, interference, noninterference, perseverance, preponderance, reappearance, reassurance, reinsurance, remembrance, teleconference, videoconference. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, clairvoyance, coexistence, cognizance, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, intelligence, interdependence, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, relevance, reliance, reluctance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: incarcerate. | |
-3 letters: accelerant. | |
-4 letters: centraler, cercariae, cercarial, certainer, clearance, eccentric, erratical, interlace, reactance, tarriance. | |
-5 letters: acentric, acierate, alienate, analcite, arterial, calcanei, calceate, canceler, canticle, carcanet, carinate, celeriac, centiare, cercaria, cetacean, clarence, clarinet, craniate, creatine, eclectic, elaterin, electric, elenctic, encircle, entailer, increate, iterance, lacerate, laitance, larcener, licencer, nearlier, reaccent, recanter, recircle, recliner, recreant, relearnt, reliance, retailer, retainer, tailrace, treenail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: recalcitrances. | |
+2 letters: recalcitrancies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 61 6C 63 69 74 72 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .- .-.. -.-. .. - .-. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100011 01101001 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c a l c i t r a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 0061 006C 0063 0069 0074 0072 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716967786975868467806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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