Stubborn
['stʌbən] or ['stʌbɚn]
Definition
(adj.) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield .
Checker: Sondra--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
Editor: Robert
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Obstinate, unyielding, inflexible, positive, contumacious, refractory, perverse, headstrong, cantankerous, wilful, dogged, mulish, unruly, unmanageable, ungovernable, intractable, indocile, heady, cross-grained, obdurate, stiff, pig-headed.
Edited by Carmella
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tough, unbending, unyielding, hard, obstinate, intractable, obdurate, stiff,harsh, inflexible, headstrong, refractory, heady, contumacious, pig-headed
ANT:Docile, tractable, manageable, pliant, pliable, malleable, flexible
Inputed by Cathleen
Definition
adj. immovably fixed in opinion: obstinate: persevering: steady: stiff: inflexible: hardy: not easily melted or worked.—v.t. (Keats) to make stubborn.—adv. Stubb′ornly.—n. Stubb′ornness.—adj. Stubb′orn-shaft′ed having strong shafts or trunks.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- Yet they speak of the mule as stubborn, the woman said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I never thought Edward so stubborn, so unfeeling before. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- See him contented, however, thou stubborn varlet, said the Disinherited Knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To the left, in Baird's front where Bragg's troops had massed against Sherman, the resistance was more stubborn and the contest lasted longer. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Not a plough had ever disturbed a grain of that stubborn soil. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In the present instance this broom was manufactured out of the tough fibres of Moore's own stubborn purpose, bound tight with his will. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The more inflexibly stubborn the humour, the softer, the sadder the tone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Yorkshire people are as yielding to persuasion as they are stubborn against compulsion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He's just about stubborn enough. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But Will was looking as stubborn as possible, with his lip pouting and his fingers in his side-pockets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hardly so, I think,' the stubborn Mortimer strikes in. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is all one piece of sober, careful analysis, and stubborn, successful attack on the problem. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To be sure; no doubt on't, persisted the stubborn overlooker. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Rose is a still, sometimes a stubborn, girl now. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was an honest, phlegmatic, stupid, but stubborn canine character. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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