Definition of stubborn Stubborn
/stʌˈbɚn/ - [stubern] - stub•born
We found 11 definitions of stubborn from 6 different sources.
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Adjectivestubborn, stubborner, stubbornest |
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| stubborn - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | ||
| obstinate, unregenerate | ||
| docile willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" | ||
| disobedient not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children" | ||
| intractable not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" | ||
| uncompromising, sturdy, inflexible not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty" | ||
| bloody-minded, cantankerous stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator | ||
| bolshy, stroppy obstreperous | ||
| bullheaded, pigheaded, bullet-headed obstinate and stupid | ||
| dogged, pertinacious, unyielding, dour, tenacious, persistent stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" | ||
| contrarious, cross-grained difficult to deal with | ||
| determined having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | ||
| mulish, hardheaded guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics" | ||
| stiff-necked haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin" | ||
| stubborn - not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains" | ||
| refractory | ||
| intractable not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" | ||
| medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- stubborn (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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield. -
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Difficult to treat or deal with. -
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Not responding to treatment. -
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Persisting in a reactionary stand. -
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Resisting vigorously and stubbornly to the last.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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stub′orn, 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. [A.S. styb, a stub.]
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