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adj. Obstinately resistant to authority or control. See Synonyms at unruly.

adj. Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat: a refractory material such as silica.

adj. Resistant to treatment: a refractory case of acne.

n. One that is refractory.

n. Material that has a high melting point.

adj. Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.

adj. Not affected by great heat.

adj. Difficult to treat.

adj. Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.

n. A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.

adj. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable.

adj. 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.

n. A refractory person.

n. Refractoriness.

n. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.

Resisting; unyielding; sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; stubborn and unmanageable.

Resisting ordinary treatment or strains, etc.; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like: said especially of metals and the like that require an extraordinary degree of heat to fuse them, or that do not yield readily to the hammer.

Not susceptible; not subject; resisting (some influence, as of disease).

Synonyms Stubborn, Intractable, etc. (see obstinate), unruly, ungovernable, unmanageable, headstrong, mulish.

n. One who is obstinate in opposition or disobedience.

n. Obstinate opposition.

n. In pottery, a piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln to communicate a glaze to other articles.

adj. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli

adj. not responding to treatment

n. lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace

adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control

"For the purpose of this book the term refractory will cover clays and materials that are suitable to be used in a potter's kiln fired up to"

unresponsive    intractable    disobedient   

liner    lining   

intractable    obstinate    refractory period of a muscle   

unmanageable    ungovernable    obstinate    contumacious    stubborn    unyielding    unruly    perverse    refractoriness    inanimates   

factory    olfactory    satisfactory    unsatisfactory   

rebellious    intractable    mutinous    disobedient    recalcitrant    headstrong    quarrelsome    troublesome    discontented    perverse