Obdurate
['ɒbdjʊrət] or ['ɑbdərət]
Definition
(a.) Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
(a.) Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
(v. t.) To harden.
Editor: Murdoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Hardened, obstinate, callous, unfeeling, stubborn, unyielding, dogged, pig-headed, inflexible, inexorable, cantankerous.[2]. Depraved, graceless, shameless, reprobate, lost, impenitent, irreclaimable, incorrigible.
Checked by Calvin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hardened, obstinate, stubborn, impenitent, reprobate, callous, unfeeling,insensible, unyielding
ANT:Softened, flexible, tender, teachable, yielding, penitent, docile, amenable
Editor: Nolan
Definition
adj. hardened in heart or in feelings: difficult to influence esp. in a moral sense: stubborn: harsh.—n. Ob′dūracy state of being obdurate: invincible hardness of heart.—adv. Ob′dūrately.—ns. Ob′dūrateness Obdūrā′tion.—adj. Obdūred′ hardened.
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Examples
- He protested and pleaded with Faust, but the latter was obdurate. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- How could any parent be obdurate for a length of time against such a paragon as he was? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No entreaties will move the obdurate Hassan. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments, if I continued obdurate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I looked with interest at the momentary softening of that obdurate heart. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Even her obdurate nature was touched. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How far will they remain dark, obdurate, habitual, and traditional, resisting the convergent forces that offer them either unity or misery? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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