- having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline拒不服从的; 顽抗的, 倔强对抗的：
a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds.
一群桀骜不驯的15岁少年。
- a person with such an attitude倔强顽抗者, 桀骜不驯的人。
派生词
recalcitrance
nounrecalcitrantly
adverb词源
mid 19th cent.: from Latin recalcitrant- 'kicking out with the heels', from the verb recalcitrare, based on calx, calc- 'heel'.