obstinate
Verb
- persist stubbornly
- "he obstinates himself against all rational arguments"
Adjective
- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Adjective Satellite
- stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
- resistant to guidance or discipline
- "an obstinate child with a violent temper"
Adj
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- Not easily subdued or removed.
- Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English obstinat(e) (“obstinate, stubborn”), from Latin obstinātus, perfect passive participle of obstinō (“set one's mind firmly upon, resolve”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ob (“before”) + *stinare, from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of ostinato.
Synonyms
contrary, cussed, obdurate, perverse, stubborn, unregenerate, unrepentant, wayward, adamant, ardent, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inexorable, inflexible, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, irrefragable, mulish, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful
Antonyms
docile, compromising, flexible, sycophantic, transigent, yielding
Scrabble Score: 11
obstinate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordobstinate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
obstinate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary