obstinate
adjEtymology
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.
- derived from obstinātus
- inherited from obstinat
Definitions
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied…
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- 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 […]
- […] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments
Of an inanimate object, not easily subdued or removed.
- an obstinate blockage in the pipe
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, 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.
Of a facial feature or expression, fixed and unmoving.
- He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, obstinate jowl.
The neighborhood
- synonympersistent
- synonymstubborn
- synonympertinacious
- synonymadamant
- synonymardent
- synonymgrim
- synonymbent on
- synonymbullheaded
- synonymcertain
- synonymchronic
- synonymconfirmed
- synonymdetermined
- antonymcompromising
- antonymtransigent
- antonymflexible
- antonymsycophantic
- antonymyielding
- neighborrecidivist
- neighborcontrary
- neighborobstinacy
- neighborpersist
- neighborhard
- neighborhellbent
- neighborindomitable
- neighboriron-fisted
- neighboriron-handed
- neighboriron-willed
- neighbormonomaniacal
- neighborperverse
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at obstinate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at obstinate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at obstinate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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