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Definition of Stubborn
1. Adjective. Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield.
Also: Inflexible, Sturdy, Uncompromising, Disobedient, Intractable
Similar to: Bloody-minded, Cantankerous, Bolshy, Stroppy, Bullet-headed, Bullheaded, Pigheaded, Dogged, Dour, Persistent, Pertinacious, Tenacious, Unyielding, Contrarious, Cross-grained, Determined, Hardheaded, Mulish, Stiff-necked, Strong-minded, Strong-willed
Antonyms: Docile
Derivative terms: Stubbornness
2. Adjective. Not responding to treatment. "Stubborn rust stains"
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Similar to: Intractable
Derivative terms: Refractoriness, Stubbornness
Definition of Stubborn
1. a. Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
Definition of Stubborn
1. Adjective. Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stubborn
1. unyielding [adj -BORNER, -BORNEST] - See also: unyielding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stubborn
Literary usage of Stubborn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America by Charles Washington Baird (1885)
"... omit the mention of a very wonderful act of grace, performed upon another
heretic, one of the most stubborn of those whom we have seen stubborn here. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"The enemy continued to fight, in retreat, with stubborn resistance, ... The stubborn
resistance, maintained all day, faltered from that moment, ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... stubborn wood: Unnamed by Holinshed or Hall, He was the living soul of all;
That, after fight, his faith made plain, He won his rank and lands again, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... renouncing all idea of resistance to his will; and another to spare the armed
and stubborn burghers, who had so long defied and baffled his efforts. ..."
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