intransigeant
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]intransigeant (comparative more intransigeant, superlative most intransigeant)
- Alternative form of intransigent
- 1964, C. P. Snow, Corridors Of Power:
- ‘That's not good enough!’ Her voice rang out like a challenge. I would talk to her sometime in the nearish future. ‘No.’ Her reply was intransigeant.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish intransigente at the end of the nineteenth century. By surface analysis, in- + transiger + -ant, literally “uncompromising”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]intransigeant (feminine intransigeante, masculine plural intransigeants, feminine plural intransigeantes)
- intransigent, unaccommodating
- Synonym: sévère
- Antonyms: conciliant, accommodant, (uncommon) transigeant
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: intransigent
- → German: intransigent
- → Romanian: intransigent
Further reading
[edit]- “intransigeant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “intransigeant” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “intransigeant” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.