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diehard

adj
/ˈdaɪ.hɑɹd/US/ˈdaɪ.hɑːd/UK

Etymology

Deverbal from die hard.

Definitions

  1. Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.

  2. Fanatically opposing progress or reform.

  3. Complete

    Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.

    • For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.
    • The libertarian right of the Consservative Party, many of them diehard Europhobes, privately referred to the health minister and his advisers as "the Gestapo" for their faith in enforced lockdowns.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.

    2. A person with such an attitude.

    3. A locality in the Glen Innes Severn council area, north eastern New South Wales,…

      A locality in the Glen Innes Severn council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA