adjective · rare

intransigent

in·tran·si·gent

intransigent · more intransigent · most intransigent

непохитний, безкомпромісний, непримиренний, непримиримий

непримиримый, непреклонный

stur, kompromisslos, unnachgiebig, unversöhnlich

Unwilling to compromise or moderate a positionUnwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; stubborn.

ⓘ

/ɪnˈtɹæn.sə.d͡ʒənt/

» He's a stubborn and intransigent demagogue.

Он упрямый и непреклонный демагог. — Smoky

shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR

Meaning

1 senses

Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; stubborn.
Near-synonyms: intractable; see also Thesaurus:obstinate
Don't waste your time trying to change his mind: he's completely intransigent.
kompromisslos, intransigent, unnachgiebig
непрекло́нныйnepreklónnyj, непримири́мыйneprimirímyj
непримире́ннийneprymyrénnyj, непримири́мийneprymyrýmyj, безкомпромі́снийbezkompromísnyj

More definitions

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

Examples

3 sentences

He's a stubborn and intransigent demagogue.
ruОн упрямый и непреклонный демагог. — Smoky
shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
He is a stubborn and intransigent demagogue.
ruОн упрямый и непреклонный демагог. — Smoky
shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
Mary tried to convince Tom to come back, but he was intransigent.
ruМэри пыталась убедить Тома вернуться, но тот был непреклонен. — odexed
AlanF_US · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem

Translations

7 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

unwilling to compromise or moderate a position, mad:

Русский

By meaning 1

unwilling to compromise or moderate a position, mad:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

unwilling to compromise or moderate a position, mad:

Origin

Borrowed from French intransigeant, from Spanish intransigente, from Latin in- (“un-, not”

Borrowed from French intransigeant, from Spanish intransigente, from Latin in- (“un-, not”) + trānsigēns, present participle of trānsigō (“to come to an understanding”), from trāns (“across”) + agō (“to do”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source