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Webster 1913 Edition
Obstinate
Ob′sti-nate
,Adj.
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
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Obstinate
OB'STINATE
,Adj.
1.
Stubborn; pertinaciously adhering to an opinion or purpose; fixed firmly in resolution; not yielding to reason, arguments or other means.I have known great cures done by obstinate resolutions of drinking no wine.
No ass so meek, no ass os obstinate.
2.
Not yielding or not easily subdued or removed; as an obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions; an obstinate cough.Definition 2024
obstinate
obstinate
English
Adjective
obstinate (comparative more obstinate, superlative most obstinate)
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- 1686, Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
- From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]
- 1686, Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
- Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
- 1927, Gandhi, translated by Mahadev Desai, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,
- Now it happened that Kasturbai […] had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate.
- 1927, Gandhi, translated by Mahadev Desai, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,
Synonyms
- (stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course): bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious
- (not easily subdued): persistent, unrelenting, inexorable
- See also Wikisaurus:obstinate
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually unreasonably
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Latin
Adjective
obstināte
- vocative masculine singular of obstinātus
References
- obstinate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obstinate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “obstinate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.