| 单词 | obstinate |
| 释义 | obstinate (once / 338 pages) adjv When someone is beyond stubborn, use the word obstinate instead: "You obstinate old mule! Get out of my way!" While stubborn may have positive or negative connotations, obstinate is most definitely negative, because it implies a kind of hard-headed determination not to change your mind even when it might be best to rethink your position. "The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions, but they hold him," wrote Samuel Butler way back in the seventeenth century. The word still does the trick if you want a put-down for someone you think is being a pig-headed fool or a stick in the mud. WORD FAMILYobstinate: obstinacy, obstinance, obstinately, obstinater, obstinates, obstinatest, obstinating+/obstinacy: obstinacies USAGE EXAMPLESAll this fits the stereotype of “Jewish uproar”—of a noisy, obstinate people. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) The legislature will reconvene in 2017 but with both sides obstinate, it is unclear where lawmakers will find compromise. Time(Dec 21, 2016) Zimmerman was nagged early last season by plantar fasciitis in his foot and throughout the year by an obstinate batting average. Washington Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1adj tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield Syn|Ant stubborn, unregenerate inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising not making concessions disobedientnot obeying or complying with commands of those in authority bloody-minded, cantankerousstubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate bolshy, stroppyobstreperous bullet-headed, bullheaded, pigheadedobstinate and stupid dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingstubbornly unyielding contrarious, cross-graineddifficult to deal with determineddevoting full strength and concentrated attention to hardheaded, mulishunreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack stiff-neckedhaughtily stubborn strong-minded, strong-willedhaving a determined will intractablenot tractable; difficult to manage or mold docile willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed obedientdutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority meek, tamevery docile sheepish, sheeplikelike or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity yieldinginclined to yield to argument or influence or control manipulable, tractableeasily managed (controlled or taught or molded) 2adj stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing Syn cussed, obdurate, unrepentant unregenerate, unregenerated not reformed morally or spiritually 3adj resistant to guidance or discipline an obstinate child with a violent temper Syn contrary, perverse, wayward disobedient not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority 4v persist stubbornly he obstinates himself against all rational arguments Hyper hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere, persist be persistent, refuse to stop |
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