intransigent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable.

   Don't waste your time trying to change his mind: he's completely intransigent.

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”).

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