Usually means: Stubbornly refusing to change opinion.
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  1. obstinate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obstinate: Merriam-Webster
  3. obstinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obstinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obstinate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obstinate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obstinate, obstinate: Wordnik
  8. obstinate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obstinate: Wiktionary
  10. obstinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obstinate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obstinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. obstinate: Dictionary.com
  14. obstinate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. obstinate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Obstinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obstinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obstinate: Rhymezone
  19. obstinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obstinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Obstinate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. obstinate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. obstinate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. obstinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obstinate: Legal dictionary

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  1. obstinate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstinate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. obstinate: Medical dictionary

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  1. obstinate: Idioms

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  1. Obstinate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obstinate)

▸ adjective:  Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
▸ adjective:  (of inanimate things) Not easily subdued or removed.
▸ adjective:  (of a facial feature) Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.

Similar:
stubborn, wayward, obdurate, unrepentant, cussed, disobedient, contrary, unregenerate, unregenerated, perverse, more...

Opposite:
compliant, yielding, docile, manageable

Types:
pig-headed, stubborn, obdurate, intractable, recalcitrant, obstreperous, more...

Phrases:
opposite of obstinate, more obstinate, obstinate or cranky, obstinate or stupid, one who is obstinate, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, first, own, very, most, compare

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Similar:
stubborn, wayward, obdurate, unrepentant, cussed, disobedient, contrary, unregenerate, unregenerated, perverse, more...

Opposite:
compliant, yielding, docile, manageable

Types:
pig-headed, stubborn, obdurate, intractable, recalcitrant, obstreperous, more...

Phrases:
opposite of obstinate, more obstinate, obstinate or cranky, obstinate or stupid, one who is obstinate, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, first, own, very, most, compare

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     charcoal,     deep red,     mahogany,     slate gray, more...



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