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Definition: INCOMPLIANT

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn.[Websters]
2. Being intractable or refractory. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being rigid, unbending, stiff, unyielding or inflexible. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being stubborn, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded or tenacious. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being unaccommodating or unobliging. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. Being uncompromising or intransigent. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb incompliantly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(incompliantly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective incompliant.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Incompliant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: INCOMPLIANT

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Adjective] Unyielding to request or solicitation; not disposed to comply. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Definition: INCOMPLIANT

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn.[Websters]
2. Being intractable or refractory. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being rigid, unbending, stiff, unyielding or inflexible. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being stubborn, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded or tenacious. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being unaccommodating or unobliging. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. Being uncompromising or intransigent. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb incompliantly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(incompliantly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective incompliant.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "INCOMPLIANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: INCOMPLIANT

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Adjective] Unyielding to request or solicitation; not disposed to comply. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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