Usually means: Resist authority or control stubbornly.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word recalcitrate:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. recalcitrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. recalcitrate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. recalcitrate: Vocabulary.com
  4. recalcitrate: Wordnik
  5. recalcitrate: Wiktionary
  6. recalcitrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. recalcitrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Recalcitrate, recalcitrate: Dictionary.com
  9. Recalcitrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. recalcitrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. recalcitrate: Rhymezone
  12. Recalcitrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. recalcitrate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. recalcitrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Recalcitrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recalcitrate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recalcitrate)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To kick back; to kick against anything.
▸ verb:  (transitive, by extension) To express repugnance or opposition.

Similar:
recal, recoct, calcate, retractate, recule, uncramp, resiliate, recouch, renay, recurve, more...

Types:
stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, recalcitrant, intractable, intransigent, obstreperous, more...

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Similar:
recal, recoct, calcate, retractate, recule, uncramp, resiliate, recouch, renay, recurve, more...

Types:
stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, recalcitrant, intractable, intransigent, obstreperous, more...



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