obstinate (Meaning)
obstinate (v)
persist stubbornly
obstinate (a)
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
obstinate (s)
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
resistant to guidance or discipline
obstinate (a.)
Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Synonyms & Antonyms of obstinate
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- receptive
- willing
- responsive
- docile
- agreeable
- yielding
- receptive
- compliant
- tractable
- acquiescent
- flexible
- submissive
- amenable
- pliable
- complying
- pliant
- acquiescent
- willing
- tractable
- docile
- complying
- flexible
- obedient
- pliant
- responsive
- agreeable
- accepting
- compliant
- obedient
- accepting
- pliable
- yielding
- amenable
- submissive
Synonyms:
- obdurate
- unyielding
- inflexible
- pat
- headstrong
- hardened
- strict
- mulish
- persistent
- bullheaded
- opinionated
- steadfast
- immovable
- intransigent
- wilful
- dogged
- implacable
- stiff-necked
- willful
- ossified
- adamantine
- pigheaded
- unbending
- perverse
- unrelenting
- obsessive
- pertinacious
- hardheaded
- determined
- uncompromising
- hard
- self-willed
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- relentless
- ungovernable
- indomitable
- froward
- mutinous
- uncooperative
- self-opinionated
- unconquerable
- set
- unmanageable
- demanding
- hard-line
- rigid
- wayward
- exacting
- bloody-minded
- narrow-minded
- firm
- hell-bent
- resolved
- single-minded
- hard-shell
- inconvincible
- invincible
- defiant
- severe
- insurgent
- cantankerous
- disobedient
- insubordinate
- hard-nosed
- inexorable
- hidebound
- contrary
- tenacious
- deaf to reason
- stouthearted
- contumacious
- intractable
- unflinching
- inveterate
- stern
- anal-retentive
- iron
- unruly
- confirmed
- cussed
- refractory
- unregenerate
- hard-shelled
- recalcitrant
- wrongheaded
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word obstinate
persist stubbornly, tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield, stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing, resistant to guidance or disciplin
adamant,stubborn, obdurate, unyielding, inflexible, pat, headstrong, hardened, strict, mulish
receptive, willing, responsive, docile, agreeable, yielding, receptive, compliant, tractable, acquiescent
The obstinate child refused to obey his parents, despite their repeated requests.
The politician remained obstinate in his beliefs, even when presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
The stubborn mule was an obstinate animal, refusing to move even when prodded.
The obstinate patient refused to take the medication prescribed by his doctor.
