resistant (resisting)
71untamable — Synonyms and related words: beyond control, breachy, contumacious, defiant, fractious, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, obstreperous, out of hand, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting,… …
72unyielding — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, bowelless, bulky, bullheaded, cast iron, certain, closed to, complaining, constant, cruel, dense, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dog eat dog, dour, durable,… …
73up in arms — Synonyms and related words: against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, at cross purposes, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at feud, at issue, at loggerheads, at odds, at square, at strife, at… …
74wild — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Dionysiac, Gothic, Neanderthal, Sahara, abandoned, absurd, accident prone, addled, adventurous, agitated, agrarian, amok, anarchic, angry, animal, at fever pitch, atrocious, audacious,… …
75renitent — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Tending to resist, as an influence or idea: resistant, resisting, resistive. See RESIST …
76reluctant — adjective 1) when it came to trying something new, her parents were usually reluctant Syn: unwilling, disinclined, unenthusiastic, resistant, resisting, opposed; hesitant Ant: willing, eager 2) a reluctant smile Sy …
77sturdy — adj 1. stalwart, stout, rugged, hefty, husky, burly, iron, solid, tough, yeomanly, Scot. buirdly, Scot, and North Eng. stiff, Inf. tough as nails, Inf. hard as rock; muscular, muscled, well muscled, full muscled, strong, brawny, strapping, broad… …
78recalcitrant — [adj] disobedient, uncontrollable contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, resisting, stubborn, undisciplinable,… …
79susceptible — [adj] exposed, naive affected, aroused, be taken in, disposed, easily moved, easy, fall for, given, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, influenced, liable, mark, movable, nonresistant, obnoxious, open, out on a limb*,… …
80Attachment in children — is a theory of attachment between children and their caregivers specifically addressing the behaviors and emotions that children direct toward familiar adults. It is primarily an evolutionary and ethological theory postulating that infants seek… …
