Definitions for: Obstinate


[adj] persisting in a reactionary stand
[adj] resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"
[adj] stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
[v] persist stubbornly; "he obstinates himself against all rational arguments"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ob"sti*nate, a. [L. obstinatus, p. p. of obstinare
to set about a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob (see
Ob-) + a word from the root of stare to stand. See Stand,
and cf.Destine.]
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.

Synonyms: contrary, cussed, disobedient, obdurate, perverse, stubborn, unreconstructed, unregenerate, unregenerated, unrepentant, wayward

See Also: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere, persist

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