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Recalcitrate

Definition: Recalcitrate

Recalcitrate

Verb

1. Show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient; "The Democratic senators recalcitrated against every proposal from the Republican side".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms within Context: Recalcitrate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Recoil

Verb: recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.

Resistance

Kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose; fly in the face of; lift the hand against; (attack); rise up in arms; (war); strike, turn out; draw up a round robin; (remonstrate); revolt; (disobey); make a riot.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Recalcitrate

Language Translations for "recalcitrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

упорствам. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ellenáll valaminek. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecalcitrateray

   

Portuguese

  

recalcitrar, obstinar-se, desobedecer (disoblige, transgress). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se arãta nesupus, se împotrivi (object, repel, withstand), fi recalcitrant. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

упорствовать (persevere, persist, stand out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

biti neposlušan (disobey). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

obstinarse (be obstinate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

motsträvigera. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไม่ยอมเชื่อฟัง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

söz dinlememek (disobey, take the bit between one's teeth), karşı gelmek (argue, beard, bridle, buck, controvert, cut across, defy, go against, object to, oppose, transgress), inat etmek (balk, balk at, baulk, be obstinate, persist, stickle), aksilik etmek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

упиратися (abut, balk), чинити опір (breast, counter, fight back, kick against, oppose, revolt, stand against). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Recalcitrate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-i-l-r-r-t-t"

-2 letters: retractile.

-3 letters: aliterate, altercate, cercariae, cercarial, clatterer, craterlet, erratical, retaliate.

-4 letters: acierate, arterial, calceate, celeriac, cercaria, electric, lacerate, laterite, literate, litterer, raclette, recircle, retailer, tactical, tailrace, tartaric, tractile, trictrac.

-5 letters: accrete, acerate, acetate, alerter, alterer, arietta, ariette, article, atactic, atelier, calcite, caterer, cattail, cattier, circler, circlet, cirrate, citrate, clatter, clearer, critter, earlier, ectatic, erratic, iterate, lactate, lattice, learier, railcar, rattail, rattier, rattler, realter, recital, reciter, recrate, relater, reticle, retitle, retrace, retract, retreat, retrial, tactile, teacart, tearier, terrace, tertial, tiercel, trailer, treacle, treater.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Recalcitrate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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