Thesaurus: refractory

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1. a. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
2. a. Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
3. n. A refractory person.
4. n. Refractoriness.
5. n. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
6. adj. not responding to treatment
7. adj. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus
8. adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control
9. n. lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
10. 1. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak. 2. Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore. Syn. -- Perverse; contumacious; unruly; stubborn; obstinate; unyielding; ungovernable; unmanageable. 1. A refractory person. Bp. Hall. 2. Refractoriness. [Obs.] Jer. TAylor. 3. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight.
11. j:100 s. not responding to treatment s. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli