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Intransigent   /ɪntrˈænsədʒənt/  /ɪntrˈænzədʒənt/   Listen
Intransigent

adjective
1.
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason.  Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, inexorable.  "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him" , "An intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"






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"Intransigent" Quotes from Famous Books



... and gay when the Pleiades reached Lizoria; Garlock was inwardly happy and outwardly content. Semolo, however, was his usual intransigent self. In fact, if it had not been for Mirea Mitala, and the fact that she—metaphorically—did pin Semolo's ears back, Garlock would not have ...
— The Galaxy Primes • Edward Elmer Smith

... was from my Hindu guru, unknown to the roll call of Christian membership, that I learned to perceive the deathless essence of the Bible, and to understand the truth in Christ's assertion-surely the most thrillingly intransigent ever uttered: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... and to Oxford, and was member of two good clubs. He was extremely rich, and he was by profession, said Chevenix, a prince. He had no territory, and was not apparently scheming to get any, either of his own or other people's. Nobody at the Foreign Office believed that he corresponded with any intransigent; he used to go there often and exchange urbane gossip with under-secretaries. He lodged in Duke Street, gave dinner-parties at the Bachelors, had a large visiting-list, and was, as they say, always ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett



Words linked to "Intransigent" :   intransigence, inflexible, adamantine, intransigency, adamant



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