unrecalcitrant

adjective

1. resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
2. hard to deal with, manage, or operate.

noun

3. a recalcitrant person.

adjective

1. not susceptible to control or authority; refractory

noun

2. a recalcitrant person

adj.1823, from French récalcitrant, literally “kicking back” (17c.-18c.), past participle of recalcitrare “to kick back; be inaccessible,” from re- “back” (see re-) + Latin calcitrare “to kick,” from calx (genitive calcis) “heel.” Used from 1797 as a French word in English.