intransigent
in-TRAN-sih-juntadjMeaning refusing to compromise or give way at all
Memory hook the GENT who won’t make a deal: in-TRANS-i-GENT. Pip offers nine coins for the hat, then nine and a half, but the seller is a gent who will not bend an inch: “Ten, or no deal.” He is intransigent.
The two intransigent cats each refused to give up the sunny spot on the porch.
In context The talks failed because both sides were intransigent: neither would give up a single demand, so the meeting ended without even a partial deal.
Similar uncompromising, unbending, inflexible, unyielding
Opposite flexible, accommodating, compromising
From Spanish intransigente, “not coming to an agreement,” from Latin in- (not) + transigere (to come to terms).