Obstinate
['ɒbstɪnət] or ['ɑbstɪnət]
Definition
(verb.) persist stubbornly; 'he obstinates himself against all rational arguments'.
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Definition
(a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
(a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stubborn, dogged, contumacious, unyielding, inflexible, perverse, mulish, opinionated, opinionative, wilful, heady, headstrong, refractory, unruly, cross-grained, intractable, cantankerous, obdurate, persistent, self-willed, PIG-HEADED.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Headstrong, stubborn, refractory, self-willed, pertinacious, obdurate,perverse, intractable
ANT:Amenable, complaisant, yielding, docile, ductile, characterless, irresolute,wavering
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Definition
adj. blindly or excessively firm: unyielding: stubborn: not easily subdued or remedied.—ns. Ob′stinacy Ob′stinateness the condition of being obstinate: excess of firmness: stubbornness: fixedness that yields with difficulty as a disease.—adv. Ob′stinately.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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Examples
- Can't you look at the gentleman, you obstinate boy? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Pray whose opinion did you think would have the most obstinate vitality? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I am as obstinate as one, I am more stupid than one, I get as much pleasure as one, and I should like to kick like one. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be obstinate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Elliston, still smarting with the knocks, kicks and scratches he had got in his scuffle with the obstinate coachman, was not in a very gentle humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There's a obstinate pauper for you! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I should like to see you obstinate, I should. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For a long time he was obstinate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was, however, in the obstinate phase of drunkenness, and he returned by another entrance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I couldn't help it, my dear Sir,' replied Perker, with a smile and a pinch of snuff; 'you know how obstinate he is? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I am afraid I must own that I am rather an obstinate old man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Never was an obstinate person yet, who would own to the word! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bumble shook his head, as he replied, 'Obstinate people, Mr. Sowerberry; very obstinate. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But my lamented friend was obstinate. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I know I am, sir,' returned Wegg, with obstinate magnanimity. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I've been telling you for how many years that you're one of the most opinionated and obstinate of women. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was so obstinate, I thought it better to tell him what I really _had_ seen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He remained moody, obstinate, and unmoved. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Still Meyler was such a sturdy, true, obstinate, English country gentleman, as to pronounce the man half-bred, impudent, and a bore. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He was obstinate, but not firm; benevolent in his first movements; harsh and reckless when provoked. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- With regard to a large number of matters about which other men are decided or obstinate, he was the most easily manageable man in the world. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There followed a long and obstinate civil war, the King holding Oxford, the Parliament, London. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They would not adopt them; the governor was obstinate, and the bill was lost. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She was always ready to forgive if asked to do so; but I seemed to her to be as an obstinate child, and that made her unyielding. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And you mean to say you are still obstinate? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But the human reason is an obstinate thing, and will criticize and select in spite of its own resolutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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