stubborn
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈstʌbərn/
:
persistente
- If you have stubborn straight lashes like I do, waterproof mascara is your hero because it will hold your curl.
- stubborn fact
Also, bacteria are surprisingly stubborn things.
- Also, bacteria are surprisingly stubborn things.
- I'm wearing the most long wearing, hard to remove stubborn makeup.
- It's never made me break out, but it really hydrates any stubborn dry patch area, anything like that.
- If inflation ends up being stubborn, then inflation will end up leading to more rate increases.
- I was scraping A stubborn layer of grimy ice off my car when the phone buzzed in my pocket.
- It literally melts all your like the most stubborn makeup away and you only need a little bit and it smells like celery so I love it.
- I've had the most stubborn zit like right under here that is just not going away.
- His anxieties both quite stubborn, both real.
Examples
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That work continues and in Leicester we instituted a local lockdown in order to bear down on stubborn rates of infection.
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See, this is a very stubborn carcinoma.
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If inflation ends up being stubborn, then inflation will end up leading to more rate increases.
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Also, bacteria are surprisingly stubborn things.
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The door of Esperanza's house was stubborn at times and refused to open.
Fiction book (1999) -
And it also works great on stubborn pans and stains like that.
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It eradicates the virus and other stubborn mutations.
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It blasts and cleans away those stubborn black deposits that rob your engine of power.
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Germany's central bank boss said eurozone rate setters must be more stubborn in continuing to raise borrowing costs to tackle inflation.
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It took several attempts to get rid of the stubborn stain on the carpet.
Synonyms
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2.1
Hard to control or deal with, often not willing to help
49
3.9
Causing worry or annoyance and hard to deal with
43
4.4
Continuing with an action despite problems or opposition
22
8.7
Hard to manage, change, or control
16
7.5
Refusing to change your opinion or behavior even when others try to persuade you
10
6.5
Very firm in decisions and not willing to change or give up
1
8.9
Not responding to medical treatment for a disease
1
6.3
Sticking firmly to another thing
1
7.9
Not able to be fixed or controlled
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How Stubborn
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stubborn comes from an old word for a tree stump, something that 'will not go away' or move, so the image is of something that stays put. That's why we call a stain, infection, or problem stubborn when it is hard to remove or cure.