Usually means: Stubbornly resistant to authority, control.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word recalcitrant:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. recalcitrant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recalcitrant: Merriam-Webster
  3. recalcitrant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recalcitrant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recalcitrant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recalcitrant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Recalcitrant, recalcitrant: Wordnik
  8. recalcitrant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recalcitrant: Wiktionary
  10. recalcitrant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recalcitrant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recalcitrant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. recalcitrant: Dictionary.com
  14. recalcitrant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. recalcitrant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Recalcitrant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Recalcitrant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. recalcitrant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. recalcitrant: Rhymezone
  20. Recalcitrant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. recalcitrant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. recalcitrant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. recalcitrant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recalcitrant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. recalcitrant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Recalcitrant: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. recalcitrant: Medical dictionary
  5. Recalcitrant: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recalcitrant: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recalcitrant: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See recalcitrants as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.
adjective:  Unwilling to cooperate socially.
adjective:  Difficult to deal with or to operate.
adjective:  (botany, of seed, pollen, spores) Not viable for an extended period; damaged by drying or freezing.
noun:  A person who is recalcitrant.

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