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INTRANSIGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intransigent mean?
• INTRANSIGENT (adjective)
The adjective INTRANSIGENT has 1 sense:
1. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
Familiarity information: INTRANSIGENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
Synonyms:
adamant; adamantine; inexorable; intransigent
Context example:
an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
Similar:
inflexible (incapable of change)
Derivation:
intransigence; intransigency (the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise)
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