obstinate

  • 21obstinate — adjective 1》 stubbornly refusing to change one s opinion or chosen course of action. 2》 difficult to overcome or change: an obstinate problem. Derivatives obstinacy noun obstinately adverb Origin ME: from L. obstinatus, obstinare persist …

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  • 22obstinate — adjective it s unusual for two such obstinate people to have a happy marriage Syn: stubborn, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, intransigent, intractable, obdurate, mulish, bullheaded, stubborn as a mule, pigheaded, self willed, strong willed,… …

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  • 23obstinate desertion — Obstinate as used of desertion, which is a ground for divorce, means determined, fixed, persistent. Persisted in against the willingness of the injured party to have it concluded …

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  • 24obstinate — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adherent, adhesive, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, assiduous, balking, balky, beefy, bigoted, bloody minded, bouncing, bound, bound and determined,… …

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  • 25obstinate — ob·sti·nate || É‘bstɪnÉ™t /É’bs adj. stubborn; inflexible, not yielding …

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  • 26obstinate — a. 1. Stubborn, dogged, contumacious, unyielding, inflexible, perverse, mulish, opinionated, opinionative, wilful, heady, headstrong, refractory, unruly, cross grained, intractable, obdurate, persistent, self willed, immovable, firm, resolute,… …

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  • 27obstinate — adj 1. inflexible, immovable, not to be moved, adamant, adamantine, stiff necked, set, set in one s ways, Inf. hard core, Inf. hard shell; inexorable, implacable, intransigent, intractable, uncompromising, unbending, unwavering, unyielding;… …

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  • 28obstinate — ob·sti·nate …

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  • 29obstinate — adjective Syn: stubborn, pig headed, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, intransigent, intractable, self willed Ant: compliant …

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  • 30obstinate — [ˈɒbstɪnət] adj not willing to be reasonable and change your ideas or behaviour Syn: stubborn obstinacy noun [U] obstinately adv …

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