Associations to the word «Intransigent»

Wiktionary

INTRANSIGENT, adjective. Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn.
INTRANSIGENT, noun. Such a person

Dictionary definition

INTRANSIGENT, adjective. Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope