intransigeant

intransigeant (comparative more intransigeant, superlative most intransigeant)

1. 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.

Borrowed from Spanish intransigente at the end of the nineteenth century. By surface analysis, in- +‎ transiger +‎ -ant, literally “uncompromising”.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɑ̃/

intransigeant (feminine intransigeante, masculine plural intransigeants, feminine plural intransigeantes)

1. intransigent, unaccommodating

   Synonym: sévère

   Antonyms: conciliant, accommodant, (uncommon) transigeant

• intransigeance

• → English: intransigent
  • → German: intransigent
• → Romanian: intransigent

• “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.