Obstinate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBSTINATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• persist stubbornly
ADJECTIVE:
• stubborn
• (of an unwelcome situation) very difficult to change or overcome
• Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
• Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
• tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
• resistant to guidance or discipline
• stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

Words related to OBSTINATE

cussed9 froward14 mulish11 obstinately16 stubborn12

Words that contain OBSTINATE

obstinately16 obstinateness15 obstinatenesses17

How to use OBSTINATE in a sentence

• At the very least, the parent must expect fitful and obstinate behavior, and unreasonable action.
• It was not so much an idea as an instinct, blind, obstinate, immovable.
• He was a man of narrow views, wilful and obstinate, and from these faults in a commander-in-chief great disasters followed.
• Some of them were obstinate, and they, see you, had to be converted.
• But of all cold-blooded unconvinceable creatures, the most obstinate are fish.
• The following anecdote will show with what obstinate perseverance pack-horses have been known to preserve the line of their order.
• And, Heaven knows, she proved a heavy handful! It was even a more obstinate case to deal with, sir, than yours.
• The most beautiful girl in the school was not an object of interest to a young lady with an obstinate chin and unfortunately-placed eyes.
• General Tracy was one of those obstinate, yet superficial characters, whom no reason can convince that they are wrong, no power can oblige to confess themselves mistaken.
• Know that this Courtois, whom you think so obstinate, is really the most romantic of men, and an ambitious old fellow to boot.
• He was obstinate to the end, my Lord Bishop reported.
• It sought to warm them with the stress of its own irresistible life-stream, to beat them into shape, and make pliable their obstinate resistance.
• Asculum was reduced after a long and obstinate siege.
• The Turks, being reinforced, marched back and attacked the Imperialists, by whom they were repulsed after an obstinate engagement.
• Guines was defended with obstinate courage by Lord Grey, and did not surrender till January 20th.
• Only the obstinate determination of Marshal Lannes kept them to their work.
• She was not prosecuted as a heretic, doubtless because she was not obstinate, and obstinacy alone constitutes heresy.
• But the obstinate sailor would listen to nothing of this, and he would give the engineer no peace till he promised to satisfy his desire.
• But the Lord Robarts was an obstinate clever man who chose the other side and stuck to it in despite of first misfortunes.
• At once obstinate and industrious, he never failed to carry out what he had once taken in hand.
• While he held the lion I again climbed the tree, untied the knot that had caused so much trouble, and very shortly we had our obstinate captive stretched out between two trees.
• You who spend so much on the obstinate, consider what you owe the obedient.
• I had an obstinate patient once determined not to die, and she did not die, though death was due.
• New material was to occupy the place which had not yet been vacated by the old, and I began to grow obstinate.
• He had indeed a large and obstinate dignity in his drinking.

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