refractory
- Adjective. Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
- Adjective. Not affected by great heat.
- Adjective. (medicine) Difficult to treat.
- Adjective. (biology) 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.
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