obdurate
[ob-doo-rit, -dyoo-]
adjective
unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner.
Origin of obdurate
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adamant, callous, dogged, firm, fixed, hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, mean, mulish, obstinate, perverse, relentlessExamples from the Web for obdurate
Contemporary Examples of obdurate
Yet instead of scaling back their political ambitions in the face of an obdurate reality, they are escalating them.
It happened because of massive and obdurate resistance to reasonable change.
Historical Examples of obdurate
Mrs Varden was obdurate, and being so was not to be overcome by mortal agency.
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
But, when she found Jane obdurate, Mrs. Snow might have surrendered.
The PortygeeJoseph Crosby Lincoln
"Obdurate, indeed, is the case that will not yield to such medicine as mine," she said.
The Historical Nights' EntertainmentRafael Sabatini
But thanks to Providence, all hearts were not so obdurate as Rita's.
"She told me she 'd not see anybody, sir," was the obdurate reply.
Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2)Charles James Lever
obdurate
adjective
Word Origin for obdurate
C15: from Latin obdūrāre to make hard, from ob- (intensive) + dūrus hard; compare endure
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