Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance. See Synonyms at unruly.
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A recalcitrant person.
[Late Latin recalcitrns, recalcitrant-, present participle of recalcitrre, to be disobedient, from Latin, to deny access : re-, re- + calcitrre, to kick (from calx, calc-, heel).]
[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of farde, package, from Arabic farda, single piece, pack, bundle, from farada, to be separate; see prd in Semitic roots.]
sprightliness, liveliness, spirit, life – animation and energy in action or expression; “it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it”
sorrowful – experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; “sorrowful widows”; “a sorrowful tale of death and despair”; “sorrowful news”; “even in laughter the heart is sorrowful”- Proverbs 14:13
current, stream – a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); “the raft floated downstream on the current”; “he felt a stream of air”; “the hose ejected a stream of water”
Charybdis – (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
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