intransigent
uncompromising, refusing to agree
TRANSLATION
intransigent = unnachgiebig, starr, kompromisslos
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"If the government maintains its intransigent position, we'll paralyse this nation until the government is forced from office"
Evo Morales, Bolivian coca growers' leader
(BBC News - 23rd January 2003)
Evo Morales, Bolivian coca growers' leader
(BBC News - 23rd January 2003)
Did you
know?
intransigent
Date: circa 1879
From the Spanish intransigente, from "in" plus "transigente", present participle of transigir - to compromise; from Latin transigere - to come to an agreement.
In the 18th century there was an extreme leftist political party in Spain which, because of its unwillingness ever to compromise, was known as "Los Intransigents."
The name was formed with the negative prefix in- from transigentes, the present participle of Spanish transiger 'compromise.' This was a descendant of Latin transigere, literally 'drive through,' hence 'come to an understanding, accomplish' (source of English transact), a compound verb formed from trans- 'through' and agere 'drive' (from which English gets action, agent, etc).
French took the Spanish word over as a general adjective meaning 'uncompromising,' and English acquired it in the late 1870s.
Merriam-Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:
: refusing to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude
Synonyms:
adamant, determined, firm, fixed, hang tough, hard-nosed, immovable, inexorable, inflexible, inflexible, insistent, intransigent, obdurate, pat, relentless, resolute, rigid, set, stiff, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unshakable, unswayable
Date: circa 1879
From the Spanish intransigente, from "in" plus "transigente", present participle of transigir - to compromise; from Latin transigere - to come to an agreement.
In the 18th century there was an extreme leftist political party in Spain which, because of its unwillingness ever to compromise, was known as "Los Intransigents."
The name was formed with the negative prefix in- from transigentes, the present participle of Spanish transiger 'compromise.' This was a descendant of Latin transigere, literally 'drive through,' hence 'come to an understanding, accomplish' (source of English transact), a compound verb formed from trans- 'through' and agere 'drive' (from which English gets action, agent, etc).
French took the Spanish word over as a general adjective meaning 'uncompromising,' and English acquired it in the late 1870s.
Merriam-Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:
: refusing to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude
Synonyms:
adamant, determined, firm, fixed, hang tough, hard-nosed, immovable, inexorable, inflexible, inflexible, insistent, intransigent, obdurate, pat, relentless, resolute, rigid, set, stiff, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unshakable, unswayable
