Definition 1: Stubbornly resistant; recalcitrant, utterly uncompromising.

Usage 1: Today’s word is another orphan negative: you can be intransigent but not just "transigent"; the latter word does not exist. The negative, however, has two accompanying nouns, "intransigence" and "intransigency" with identical meanings. The adjective itself may be used as a noun referring to someone who is intransigent. The adverb, of course, is "intransigently."

Suggested usage: Today’s word is the reading person’s word for "stubborn," "I’ve asked mom a dozen times but she intransigently refuses to pay for my tattoos." In fact, intransigency implies heels more firmly embedded in your ground than does mere stubbornness, "The pipe-fitters' union is intransigent on the issue of an afternoon tea break; a strike seems inevitable."

Etymology: From Spanish "intransigente" from Latin in- "not" + transigentem, accusative present participle of transigir "to compromise," based on trans- "across" + agere "to do, act, move, drive." "Agere" is the origin of English "agent," "act," "actual," and "navigate," from navis "ship" + agere. "Ambassador" and "embassy" originate in Latin ambactus "servant" from *amb(i) "around" +ag-to- "one who moves," i.e. "one who goes around." (Today’s is another word suggested by the logophiles of yourDictionary’s Agora. Have you visited it, yet?)