adjective. Showing or characterized by obstinate resistance to authority or control.

adjective. Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat.

adjective. Resistant to treatment.

noun. One that is refractory, especially a material that has a high melting point.

Resisting; unyielding; sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; stubborn and unmanageable.

Resisting ordinary treatment or strains, etc.; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like: said especially of metals and the like that require an extraordinary degree of heat to fuse them, or that do not yield readily to the hammer.

Not susceptible; not subject; resisting (some influence, as of disease).

Synonyms Stubborn, Intractable, etc. (see obstinate), unruly, ungovernable, unmanageable, headstrong, mulish.

noun. One who is obstinate in opposition or disobedience.

noun. Obstinate opposition.

noun. In pottery, a piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln to communicate a glaze to other articles.

adjective. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable.

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.

noun. A refractory person.

noun. Refractoriness.

noun. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.

adjective. Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.

adjective. Not affected by great heat.

adjective. Difficult to treat.

adjective. Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.

noun. A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.

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

adjective. not responding to treatment

noun. lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace

adjective. stubbornly resistant to authority or control

"For the purpose of this book the term refractory will cover clays and materials that are suitable to be used in a potter's kiln fired up to"

intractable  obstinate  refractory period of a muscle  

disobedient  intractable  unresponsive  

liner  lining  

factory  olfactory  satisfactory  unsatisfactory  

discontented  disobedient  disorderly  fractious  haughty  

adversary  adversative  adverse  alien  antagonistic