Words That Mean Stubborn
The shades run from admirable to impossible: tenacious approves, obstinate disapproves, and intransigent says no negotiation is possible at all.
14 words
- Adamantadjective
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; ; - W.Churchill
- Doggedadjective
stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
- Fractiousadjective
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
- Headstrongadjective
habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
- Implacableadjective
incapable of being placated
- Inexorableadjective
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; ; - W.Churchill
- Intractableadjective
not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
- Intransigentadjective
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; ; - W.Churchill
- Obdurateadjective
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- Obstinateadjective
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
- Pertinaciousadjective
stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
- Recalcitrantadjective
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- Refractorynoun
lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
- Tenaciousadjective
stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
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A word’s meaning sharpens against its opposite. These sets are the ones worth holding beside stubborn.