refractory
61refractory — adjective formal 1》 stubborn or unmanageable. 2》 resistant to a process or stimulus. ↘Medicine not yielding to treatment. ↘technical heat resistant; hard to melt or fuse. noun (plural refractories) technical a heat resistant substance.… …
62refractory — a. Stubborn, obstinate, stiff, perverse, dogged, mulish, heady, headstrong, cross grained, intractable, unyielding, contumacious, disobedient, unruly, ungovernable, cantankerous, unmanageable, recalcitrant …
63refractory — adjective formal disobedient and difficult to deal with or control …
64refractory — adj recalcitrant, contumacious, froward, balky, uncooperative, crossgrained, wrong headed, perverse, contrary, willful, self willed, stiff necked, U.S. Inf. notionate, Inf. cussed, Archaic. untoward; obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule,… …
65refractory — re·frac·to·ry …
66refractory — adj. unresponsive: applied to a condition that fails to respond satisfactorily to a given treatment …
67refractory — a. stubborn; disobedient; immune; n. material resistant to heat, corrosion, fusion, etc …
68refractory — In medicine, describes a disease or condition that does not respond to treatment …
69refractory — adj. & n. adj. 1 stubborn, unmanageable, rebellious. 2 a (of a wound, disease, etc.) not yielding to treatment. b (of a person etc.) resistant to infection. 3 (of a substance) hard to fuse or work. n. (pl. ies) a substance especially resistant to …
70refractory period — Physiol. a short period after a nerve or muscle cell fires during which the cell cannot respond to additional stimulation. [1875 80] * * * …
