refractory

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more refractory

Superlative

most refractory

1.
Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
Đồng nghĩa: contrary, fractious, adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful
2.
Not affected by great heat.
Đồng nghĩa: heat-resistant, fireproof
3.
(medicine) Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.
4.
(biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

refractories

1.
A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.
2.
A plant or factory that produces such material.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

biorefractorychemorefractorynonrefractoryphotorefractoryunrefractoryelectrorefractorypsychological refractory periodrefractory anaemia with excess blastsrefractory metalrefractorily refractorinessrefractory periodrefractory rhymerefractive refraction

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Nguồn gốc từ

From la refractārius obstinate, from refrāctus, past participle of refringere (to break up). Originally refractary, refractarie, but reanalysed after other adjectives in -ory.