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

1. adjective. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
2. adjective. 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.
3. noun. A refractory person.
4. noun. Refractoriness.
5. noun. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
6. noun. lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
7. adjective. stubbornly resistant to authority or control

   "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"

   "a refractory child"

   Synonyms: fractious, recalcitrant

8. adjective. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli

   "the refractory period of a muscle fiber"

9. adjective. not responding to treatment

   "a stubborn infection"

   "a refractory case of acne"

   Synonyms: stubborn

Synonyms

fractious, recalcitrant, stubborn

Common word forms

refractories, refractorily

Words from these letters

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