disapproval If you describe someone as intransigent, you mean that they refuse to behave differently or to change their attitude to something. They put pressure on the Government to change its intransigent stance flexible. unwilling to change your ideas or behaviour, in a way that seems unreasonable = stubborn (intransigente, from transigir )
not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy"