obdurately
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9.1
- adverb
- /ˈɑb.dʒə.rət.li/
:
obstinadamente
- The meter and measure of historical narrative are interrupted by the obdurately artifactual.
- remain obdurately
It's it's obdurately unsentimental and so on.
- It's it's obdurately unsentimental and so on.
Examples
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Homer is embarrassed, but Olive is obdurately well-mannered.
Fiction book (1999) -
Unemployment remains obdurately high.
Blog text (4) -
It's it's obdurately unsentimental and so on.
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Indeed, we seem to remain obdurately ignorant of the nature of these issues.
Blog text (19) -
The pity of it is that both sides now seem obdurately entrenched, but both need to realize that neither is being fully reasonable, and most importantly, that wrong has been done on each side.
Blog text (2) -
These words are less Pop's transparent signs of something else (mass culture, the popular media, mechanical reproduction) than self-referential, obdurately physical matter.
Academic text (2005) -
Yet Marc Chagall and Mark Rothko remained obdurately committed to visual expression in a culture and a country united perhaps only in this: their refusal to permit any such authority.
Academic text (2008) -
Molly tried to persuade Tina to come help her with her math, but Tina sat obdurately eating fruit cocktail until Nick suggested that they all go for a walk.
Fiction book (1991) -
But our point, in my opinion, cannot be simply and obdurately to reaffirm the paramount importance of formerly suppressed or silenced forms of knowledge and leave it at that, nor can it be to surround ourselves with the sanctimonious piety of historical or cultural victimhood as a way of making our intellectual presence felt.
Academic text (1991) -
Despite her friend's pleas, she obdurately insisted on continuing her unhealthy diet.
Synonyms
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3.7
Refuse to change your mind or behavior even when you have good reasons
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6.4
In a firm way that shows you refuse to change your mind
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5.8
Firmly and without changing their mind
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4.4
In a firm and determined way without changing your mind
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3.8
In a determined way that keeps going despite problems
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6.7
In a way that shows strong determination and keeps trying without giving up
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7.2
Refusing to change your opinion or what you do
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7.5
You do not change your opinion or give in to others
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7.4
In a steady way that does not change direction or purpose
In a stubborn way, refusing to change or agree
In a stubborn way, refusing to change an idea or plan
In a stubborn way, refusing to change even when shown to be wrong
In a way that refuses to change opinions or to agree
To refuse to obey people in charge in a stubborn way
Antonyms
How Stubborn
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Obdurately comes from Latin parts ob- and durare, with durare meaning 'to harden'. This is the same root as durable, which means 'long-lasting', so to act obdurately is to be 'hardened' and refuse to change.