Obstinacy
Obstinacy
#606. Obstinacy. -- N. obstinateness &c. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity;
cussedness [U. S.]; perseverance &c. 604a; immovability; old school;
inflexibility &c. (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration[obs]; dogged
resolution; resolution &c. 604; ruling passion; blind side.
- self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy|, pervicacity[obs];
indocility[obs].
- bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry|, opiniativeness; fixed
idea &c. (prejudgment) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania;
opinionatedness opinionativeness[obs].
- mule; opinionist|, opinionatist[obs], opiniator|, opinator|;
stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic.
- V. be obstinate &c. adj.; stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of
facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one's own
way &c. (will) 600; persist &c. (persevere) 604a; have the last word,
insist on having the last word.
- die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out.
- Adj. obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened;
inflexible &c. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved;
inert &c. 172; unchangeable &c. 150; inexorable &c. (determined) 604;
mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.
- dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.
- willful, self-willed, perverse; resty[obs], restive, restiff|;
pervicacious[obs], wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong;
entete[Fr]; contumacious; crossgrained[obs].
- arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced &c. 481; creed-
bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted;
hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable,
inpersuasible[obs]; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable[obs];
incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety &c. 608.
- Adv. obstinately &c. adj.
- Phr. non possumus[Lat]; no surrender; ils n'ont rien appris ne rien
oublie[Fr].