Refractory vs Truculent - What's the difference?
refractory | truculent |
Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
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Not affected by great heat.
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(medicine) Difficult to treat.
* 1949 , Albert Fields and John Hoesley, "
* 1990 , H. A. Ring et al'', "
(biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
* 1959 , Nobusada Ishiko and Werner R. Loewenstein, "
* 1970 , S.S. Barold et al'', "
A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.
cruel or savage
Deadly or destructive.
Defiant or uncompromising.
Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
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* 2010 , Member, in Esquire Magazine "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden..."[http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?src=rss]
As adjectives the difference between refractory and truculent
is that refractory is obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something while truculent is cruel or savage.As a noun refractory
is a material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.refractory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Weller knocked at the door, and after a pretty long interval—occupied by the party without, in whistling a tune, and by the party within, in persuading a refractory flat candle to allow itself to be lighted
Neck and Shoulder Pain", Calif. Med. , 70(6):478–482.,
- Many of the vague and refractory cases of neck and shoulder pain and of migraine may be due to cervical disc disease.
Vigabatrin: rational treatment for chronic epilepsy", ''J. Neurol. Neurosurg.Psychiatry , 53(12):1051–1055,
- In 33 adult patients with long standing refractory epilepsy on treatment with one or two standard anti-convulsant drugs,
Electrical output of a receptor membrane]", [[w:Science (journal), Science], 1959, 130:1405-6,
- The production of a generator potential leaves a refractory state in the receptor membrane
Chest wall stimulation in evaluation of patients with implanted ventricular-inhibited demand pacemakers", ''Br. Heart J. , 32(6):783–789,
- The delineates the pacemaker refractory period after the emission of a pacing stimulus and after the sensing of a spontaneous beat.
Synonyms
* (obstinate) contrary (inanimates), fractiousDerived terms
* refractorily * refractoriness * refractory periodNoun
(refractories)truculent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When we were touring on a riverboat near Dandong, the truculent North Korean soldiers from the other side of the river gave us a steely-eyed death stare.
The Social Importance of Moral Rights” in (Philosophical Perspectives) VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
- It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that?—?speaking very generally?—?they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent .
- (Refering to women in Bin Laden's compound) "These bitches is getting truculent ".
Quotations
* 1847 , , , ch VI, *: In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening. * 1860-1861 , (Charles Dickens), , ch XLVI, *: She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. * 1895 , , , ch 10, *: Most of them were little dramatic situations, crucial dialogues, the return of Mr. Hoopdriver to his native village, for instance, in a well-cut holiday suit and natty gloves, the unheard asides of the rival neighbours, the delight of the old 'mater,' the intelligence—"A ten-pound rise all at once from Antrobus, mater. Whad d'yer think of that?" or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog. * 1914 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , ch 10, *: If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating. * 1922 ,(Rafael Sabatini), , ch XVI, *: Cahusac appeared to be having it all his own way, and he raised his harsh, querulous voice so that all might hear his truculent denunciation. * 1925 , (Richard Henry Tawney), "Introduction", to (Thomas Wilson) A discourse upon usury by way of dialogue and orations: for the better variety and more delight of all those that shall read this treatise (1572); Classics of social and political science [Page 2]*: Whatever his prejudices — and his book shows that they were tough — the most truculent of self-made capitalists could not have criticised him as a child in matters of finance. He had tried commercial cases, negotiated commercial treaties, ...