Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɒb.stɪ.nət/, /ˈɒb.stɪ.nɪt/
- (America) enPR: äb'stənət, IPA: /ˈɑb.stə.nət/, /ˈɑb.stə.nɪt/
obstinate
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- 1686, Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
- 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 […]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- […] 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
- 1686, Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
- Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), Mahatma 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.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,
- (stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course) bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious
- (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable
- See also Thesaurus:obstinate
- French: obstiné
- German: hartnäckig, starrköpfig
- Italian: ostinato, pertinace
- Portuguese: obstinado, persistente, pertinaz
- Russian: упря́мый
- Spanish: obstinado, obcecado, porfiado
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