1. Difficult to manage or govern; stubborn.
2. Difficult to mold or manipulate.
3. Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure.

1. sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice;
mellifluous tones.
2. flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.

1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
2. Highly refined; delicate.

a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.

1. the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
2. a pun.

1. an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
2. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity.

noun

1. A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century B.C.
2. A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values.
3. One who lacks knowledge in a specific area.

adjective

1. Of or relating to ancient Philistia

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

1. Wholly devoted to enjoyment.