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balkyadjective given to resisting authority or another's controla balky toddler who only seemed to know the word "no" when told to do something contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful(or wilful) noncooperative, uncooperativeinsurgent, mutinousadamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyieldingfractious, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wildperverse, resistant, wrongheadedbad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughtyundisciplineddissident, nonconformistdiscourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly, submissive, tractable acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obligingyieldingbehaved, disciplined, well-bredcourteous, polite, respectfulkowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservientdecorous, mannerly, orderly, propercontrollable, governable, manageable, trainable contrary, perverse, restive, balky, wayward mean inclined to resist authority or control.contrary implies a temperamental unwillingness to accept orders or advice.a contrary child perverse may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to what is reasonable or normal.a perverse, intractable critic restive suggests unwillingness or inability to submit to discipline or follow orders.tired soldiers growing restive balky suggests a refusing to proceed in a desired direction or course of action.a balky witness wayward suggests strong-willed capriciousness and irregularity in behavior.a school for wayward youths in 1831 |