Dictionary Entry
refractory
refractory is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3noun
A refractory person.
- 4noun
Refractoriness.
- 5noun
OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
- 6noun
lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
- 7adjective
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
"a refractory child"
Synonyms
- 8adjective
temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli
"the refractory period of a muscle fiber"
- 9adjective
not responding to treatment
"a stubborn infection"
"a refractory case of acne"
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