All mule synonyms
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M m adj mule
- rash — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- reckless — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unruly — not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
- unyielding — unable to bend or be penetrated under pressure; hard: trees so unyielding that they broke in the harsh north winds.
- willful — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- self-willed — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
- strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
- adamantine — very hard; unbreakable or unyielding
- balky — Someone or something that is balky does not behave or work the way you want them to.
noun mule
- half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
- incross — a mating between organisms that are both homozygous for the same allele.
- outcross — to cross (animals or plants) by breeding individuals of different strains but, usually, of the same breed.
- bobbin and fly frame — a roving machine used in the final stages of converting spun cotton fiber into yarn.
- spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
- spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
- spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
- babouche — a Middle-Eastern, particularly Turkish, heelless slipper
- pantofle — a slipper.