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- pronunciation:
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niht
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
holding stubbornly to one's own ideas or purposes; unwilling to change.
Their elderly mother was obstinate about staying in her own home and refused to even consider moving.
- synonyms:
- obdurate, stubborn, willful
- antonyms:
- compliant, pliable, pliant
- similar words:
- balky, bullheaded, contrary, cross-grained, dour, froward, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, inflexible, intractable, mulish, perverse, pigheaded, refractory, unyielding
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| definition 2: |
difficult to overcome, control, or cure; persistent or refractory.
I've had this obstinate back pain for years.- synonyms:
- persistent, refractory, stubborn
- similar words:
- dogged, dour, incorrigible, recalcitrant, uncontrollable, uncooperative, unmanageable
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| related words: |
argumentative, contumacious, difficult, doctrinaire, firm, insubordinate, ornery, persistent, problem, rigid, set |
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| derivation: |
obstinately (adv.) |
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