unregenerate
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ˌʌnrɪˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt/
:
obstinado
- The teacher found it difficult to reach the unregenerate student who refused to consider alternative viewpoints.
Examples
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Little did I imagine that the unregenerate child I received into this institution... would grow in 10 short years to become a teacher.
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Deng made common cause with a collection of gerontocrats, many of whom are unregenerate neo-Stalinists who had opposed much of the liberalizing reforms applauded by the West.
Academic text (1991) -
If then all were unregenerate and in need of salvation, how would they hear?
Academic text (2003) -
It would thus appear that unregenerate abolitionists are beating a dead horse.
Academic text (1995) -
So I surely qualify as an old, unregenerate hippie, as well as an absolute Beatles maniac.
Blog text (11) -
His narrative is of a delayed self-opening to grace and could not be told without recollections of the unregenerate condition in which he had formerly lived.
Academic text (1995) -
You will have forgotten the particulars of their bland and unregenerate racism, or maybe chalked it up to ignorance.
Fiction book (1998) -
"There was something in Sam, something decaying and unregenerate and—yes, subversive to everything in our everyday life, that was also in me."
Fiction book (1998) -
As historians of missions have observed, the spiritual equality of all unregenerate peoples—at home and abroad—had profound missionary consequences.
Academic text (2003) -
Despite numerous explanations, his unregenerate attitude towards climate change remained unchanged.
Synonyms
217
2.9
Not willing to change your mind even when others try to persuade you
30
5.5
Showing strong ideas and not willing to listen to others
24
6.8
Not willing to change opinions or demands, even if it causes problems
22
7.9
Very unwilling to accept change or new ideas
18
7.5
Not feeling sorry for something and not wanting to change
16
7.5
Refusing to change your opinion or behavior even when others try to persuade you
11
8.1
Not willing to follow rules or accept control
11
4.7
Not willing to change or accept other ideas
9
7.8
Refusing to change your mind or actions even when you are wrong
8
8.1
Not willing to change views or agree with others
6
6.7
Refusing to change your mind even when shown evidence
4
7.2
Not willing to change habits or the way they do things
3
6.9
Not willing to change your opinions or actions
3
8.8
A person who refuses to change their opinion or behaviour even when others try to persuade them
2
9.5
Still holding old beliefs and unwilling to change
1
8.1
Not willing to change your mind or actions
1
8.8
Cannot change to behave or think in a better way
1
8.7
Hard to control or manage because of stubborn behaviour
Not willing to accept new ideas and slow to change
Very old-fashioned and against change
Refusing to change an opinion even when people give reasons
Not willing to change your mind or what you do
Antonyms
How Stubborn
1
9.9
15
8.1
3
8.8
217
2.9
20
4.3
247
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
unregenerate = regenerate (semi-transparent) = un + regenerate
The prefix 'un-' negates 'regenerate', but the specific meaning of stubbornness and refusal to change is not directly derivable.
Etymology
Unregenerate is made from un- meaning 'not' and regenerate meaning 'to make new' or 'born again'. So an unregenerate person is 'not made new', someone who refuses to change their ways or to say sorry.