Thesaurus: obstinate

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1. a. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
2. a. Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
3. adj. tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
4. adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
5. adj. resistant to guidance or discipline
6. v. persist stubbornly
7. 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. I have known great cures done by obstinate resolution of drinking no wine. Sir W. Temple. No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Pope. Of sense and outward things. Wordsworth. 2. Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions. Syn. -- Stubborn; inflexible; immovable; firm; pertinacious; persistent; headstrong; opinionated; unyielding; refractory; contumacious. See Stubborn. -- Ob"sti*nate*ly, adv. -- Ob"sti*nate*ness, n.
8. j:100 v. persist stubbornly