balking

  • 101pigheaded — Synonyms and related words: balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, intolerant, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering,… …

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  • 102prevention — Synonyms and related words: Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abortion, anticipation, arrest, arrestation, arresting, avoidance, avoiding, avoiding reaction, balk, balking, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, blocking, check,… …

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  • 103reluctant — Synonyms and related words: afraid, ambling, antagonistic, apathetic, averse, backward, balking, balky, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, claudicant, complaining, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory,… …

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  • 104renitent — Synonyms and related words: antagonistic, antipathetic, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, breakaway, clashing, complaining, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking …

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  • 105restive — Synonyms and related words: antsy, antsy pantsy, anxious, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, beefing, bellyaching, beyond control, bigoted, bitching, breachy, breathless, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, chafing, complaining …

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  • 106self-willed — Synonyms and related words: balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, contrary, contumacious, determined, difficult, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, forceful, froward, hardheaded, headstrong, heady,… …

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  • 107set — Synonyms and related words: A to Z, A to izzard, Brownian movement, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Zeitgeist, abet, accepted, accommodate, accord, accretion, acrid, aculeate, acuminate, acute, adapt, address, adhere, adherence, adhesion, adjust,… …

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  • 108slow — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, Micawberish, after time, almost unheard of, ambling, apathetic, arid, arrest, arrested, averse, back, backpedal, backward, backwater, balking, balky, barren, behind, behind the times, behind time, behindhand …

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  • 109stiff necked — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, censorious, demure, dogged, dogmatic, erect, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, house proud, independent,… …

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  • 110strong willed — Synonyms and related words: balking, balky, beefy, bigoted, bouncing, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, controlled, dogged, dogmatic, doughty, fanatic, firm minded, forceful, forcible, forcy, forward, full blooded, full… …

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