refractory
About 2.95 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
- adjective Not affected by great heat.
- adjective Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.
- 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.
- noun A plant or factory that produces such material.
Similar words
stubborn recalcitrant intractable fractious disobedient uncooperative furnace lining reluctant resistant hostile
Often followed by
period to materials and metals material cases periods metal
Word family
refractories refractorily refractoriness refractorinesses
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