What is another word for obdurate?
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɒbdjʊ͡əɹət], [ ˈɒbdjʊəɹət], [ ˈɒ_b_d_j_ʊə_ɹ_ə_t]
Related words: obstinate, unyielding, obdurate concrete, stubborn, inflexible
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Similar words for obdurate:
- adamant (adjective)
- austere (adjective)
- callous (adjective)
- cold-blooded (adjective)
- contumacious (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- dogged (adjective)
- dogmatic (adjective)
- firm (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- hard-boiled (adjective)
- hard-nosed (adjective)
- hardened (adjective)
- hardhearted (adjective)
- heartless (adjective)
- immovable (adjective)
- inalterable (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- indifferent (adjective)
- inexorable (adjective)
- inflexible (adjective)
- insensible (adjective)
- intolerant (adjective)
- intractable (adjective)
- intractable /intransigent (adjective)
- iron (adjective)
- mulish (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- opinionated (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- persistent (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- pigheaded, stubborn (adjective)
- pitiless (adjective)
- relentless (adjective)
- remorseless (adjective)
- rigid (adjective)
- ruthless (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- steadfast (adjective)
- stonyhearted (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- tenacious (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- uncompassionate (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- uncompromising (adjective)
- uncontrollable (adjective)
- unemotional (adjective)
- unfeeling (adjective)
- unpitying (adjective)
- unstirred (adjective)
- unsympathetic (adjective)
- unyielding (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- stubborn (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Obdurate:
adj.
• adamant (adjective)- most unswayable,
- un swayable,
- more unswayable,
- un shakable,
- set stone,
- un-relenting,
- un relenting,
- Unswayable,
- re-solute,
- re solute,
- un-swayable,
- un-shakable.
- in-different,
- more toughened,
- un impressionable,
- more inured,
- in sensitive,
- in different,
- most inured,
- most case hardened,
- un concerned,
- un affected,
- un-concerned,
- most casehardened,
- in-sentient,
- impassive,
- most indurated,
- more indurated,
- in sentient,
- more case-hardened,
- un susceptible,
- more case hardened,
- hard bitten,
- un responsive,
- most toughened,
- more casehardened,
- un-susceptible,
- un caring,
- un-responsive,
- in-sensitive,
- in-sensate,
- un-affected,
- thick skinned,
- un-caring,
- case hardened,
- in sensate,
- un-impressionable,
- most case-hardened,
- thickskinned.
- dis-passionate,
- most stony hearted,
- in-human,
- most stony-hearted,
- more hard hearted,
- cold blooded,
- most inhuman,
- matter-of-fact,
- dis passionate,
- more hard-hearted,
- in human,
- un-moved,
- hard hearted,
- steeliest,
- more stony hearted,
- un moved,
- most hard-hearted,
- more stony-hearted,
- inhuman,
- steelier,
- most hard hearted.
- staunch,
- un flagging,
- un-flagging,
- most hardheaded,
- most perseverant,
- more perseverant,
- most perseverative,
- single minded,
- hardheaded,
- more perseverative.
- de-finite,
- most fascistic,
- more stiff-necked,
- peremptory,
- most wrong-headed,
- high mighty,
- most wrong headed,
- more wrong-headed,
- more fascistic,
- onesided,
- doctrinaire,
- stiff necked,
- wrong headed,
- narrowminded,
- Over-bearing,
- most stiff-necked,
- over bearing,
- most stiffnecked,
- most wrongheaded,
- un equivocal,
- stiffnecked,
- most stiff necked,
- one sided,
- more wrongheaded,
- most dictative,
- more dictative,
- more stiff necked,
- more wrong headed,
- de finite,
- narrow minded,
- more stiffnecked,
- un-equivocal.
- un-wavering,
- un-changeable,
- more undeviating,
- most resolved,
- re-solved,
- more stipulated,
- ex-act,
- un flinching,
- more never-failing,
- un shaken,
- more never failing,
- un-deviating,
- un-shaken,
- never failing,
- most never-failing,
- un deviating,
- most neverfailing,
- un qualified,
- more resolved,
- most undeviating,
- most never failing,
- neverfailing,
- un-flinching,
- un changeable,
- pre vailing,
- more neverfailing,
- most stipulated,
- un-qualified,
- ex act,
- un wavering,
- in tent.
- hard boiled,
- more hardshelled,
- headstrong,
- more hard-shelled,
- head strong,
- most hard shelled,
- more hard shelled,
- hardline,
- hardshelled,
- hard shelled,
- most hardshelled,
- most hard-shelled.
- hard nosed,
- more unsentimental,
- most unsentimental,
- tough minded,
- hard-nosed,
- more hard nosed,
- un-sentimental,
- un sentimental,
- stubborn as mule,
- nononsense,
- toughminded.
- more immotile,
- un alterable,
- unmodifiable,
- stick guns,
- most unmodifiable,
- un modifiable,
- set concrete,
- immovable,
- most immotile,
- more unmodifiable,
- un-modifiable,
- un-alterable.
- in escapable,
- un-appeasable,
- un-movable,
- in-exorable,
- like death taxes,
- in exorable,
- un appeasable,
- un movable,
- bound determined,
- in-escapable.
- more unadaptable,
- in flexible,
- in-flexible,
- set one's ways,
- set in ways,
- set in one ways,
- set in ones ways,
- stand ones ground,
- dyed in the wool,
- stand ground,
- un-adaptable,
- set one ways,
- stand one ground,
- un adaptable,
- set ones ways,
- hard and fast,
- most unadaptable,
- set ways.
- un-intelligible,
- gradual,
- most unimpressible,
- un impressible,
- most imperceivable,
- more unimpressible,
- un conscious,
- un aware,
- un-impressible,
- in-sensible,
- un-conscious,
- in sensible,
- un-mindful,
- more imperceivable,
- Imperceivable,
- un-aware.
- more communist,
- most worked up,
- most short fuse,
- un-fair,
- more xenophobic,
- un fair,
- un fairer,
- more shortfuse,
- un-fairer,
- in-tolerant,
- more short fuse,
- more racialist,
- most short-fuse,
- un charitable,
- more worked up,
- unindulgent,
- more worked-up,
- un willing,
- anti-pathetic,
- most workedup,
- xenophobic,
- out-raged,
- up-set,
- more chauvinistic,
- most unindulgent,
- small minded,
- tilted,
- most communist,
- un-willing,
- more tilted,
- un-charitable,
- out raged,
- most xenophobic,
- most tilted,
- more outraged,
- more workedup,
- most outraged,
- un-indulgent,
- workedup,
- more short-fuse,
- in tolerant,
- more unindulgent,
- un-fairest,
- fractious,
- most worked-up,
- un forbearing,
- most chauvinistic,
- individualistic,
- anti pathetic,
- un-forbearing,
- most shortfuse,
- un fairest,
- smallminded,
- shortfuse,
- un indulgent,
- most racialist.
- in tractable,
- more bull-headed,
- in-tractable,
- most bull headed,
- bull headed,
- more bull headed,
- most bull-headed.
- more self willed,
- toughnut,
- un pliabler,
- most tough nut,
- more toughnut,
- most self willed,
- in-curable,
- in docile,
- un-cooperative,
- self willed,
- un pliablest,
- un pliable,
- most intransigent,
- most selfwilled,
- un manageable,
- un cooperative,
- unpliablest,
- most toughnut,
- selfwilled,
- most self-willed,
- un-pliablest,
- more selfwilled,
- un-pliabler,
- in-soluble,
- un-disciplined,
- more self-willed,
- un disciplined,
- in-docile,
- un-governable,
- more tough nut,
- unpliabler,
- un-manageable,
- more tough-nut,
- un governable,
- un-pliable,
- most tough-nut,
- in soluble,
- in curable.
- strong minded,
- most strong-minded,
- more strong-minded,
- strongminded,
- more strongminded,
- most strong minded,
- most strongminded,
- more strong minded.
- bovine,
- stubborn,
- bigoted,
- resolute,
- mulish,
- Pig-headed,
- pertinacious,
- adamant,
- inelastic,
- contrary,
- opinionative,
- brass-bound.
- hardened,
- short-fuse,
- ruthless,
- wrong-headed,
- stick to guns,
- hard line,
- dead set,
- mule,
- ferrous,
- dogmatic,
- uncontrite,
- brutish,
- undeviating,
- chauvinistic,
- blind to,
- matter of fact,
- set in stone,
- strong-minded,
- un-regenerate,
- unyielding,
- hardnosed,
- deaf to,
- tough,
- firm,
- uncompliant,
- Crossgrained,
- hold the fort,
- hold ground,
- unemotional,
- stony,
- ironhearted,
- singleminded,
- Unflexible,
- unfeeling,
- uncompassionate,
- do or die,
- unbendable,
- locked in,
- dead set on,
- relentless,
- stubborn as a mule,
- willful,
- intolerant,
- head-strong,
- unpitying,
- tough nut,
- unsentimental,
- go for broke,
- case-hardened,
- contumacious,
- pitiless,
- Incompliant,
- impenitent,
- brick-wall,
- Casehardened,
- without pity,
- Hard-hearted,
- tenacious,
- neverending,
- rolling with punches,
- tough nut to crack,
- stand one's ground,
- ironfisted,
- hardhearted,
- hard-shelled,
- hang in,
- up set,
- coldblooded,
- no nonsense,
- set in one's ways,
- hard core,
- immotile,
- hang-tough,
- like bad penny,
- hardboiled,
- self-willed,
- Unpliable,
- Perseverant,
- aversive,
- ruffianly,
- Steeler,
- uncontrollable,
- inflexible,
- along for the ride,
- stiff-necked,
- unexcitable,
- hell bent on,
- steely,
- rocky,
- uncompromising,
- ferric,
- bull-headed,
- hard-boiled,
- unadaptable,
- dictative,
- unregenerate,
- uncordial,
- tough-nut,
- unstirred,
- stonyhearted,
- brick wall,
- hardbitten,
- perseverative,
- narrow,
- set in concrete,
- inalterable,
- sticking to one's guns,
- fascistic,
- wrongheaded,
- unapologetic,
- bulldogged,
- going with the flow,
- unbending,
- die hard,
- racialist,
- Unimpressible,
- unsympathetic,
- anesthetized,
- like death and taxes,
- callous,
- Unamiable,
- sensationless,
- cold-blooded,
- no going back,
- worked-up,
- cross-grained,
- laid back,
- rolling with the punches,
- brassbound,
- perverse,
- never-failing,
- Impliable,
- dogged,
- in for long haul,
- inexorable,
- iron,
- austere,
- hard,
- feelingless,
- rigid,
- heartless.
- in terminable,
- inter-minable,
- more bulldogged,
- most persisting,
- persistent,
- in-terminable,
- un-remitting,
- un remitting,
- most bulldogged,
- more persisting,
- never ending.
- dis obedient,
- bad tempered,
- dis-obedient,
- un-healthy,
- un-reasonable,
- de-generate,
- un-healthiest,
- de generate,
- badtempered,
- un healthier,
- un reasonable,
- un healthy,
- un healthiest.
- more hang tough,
- hangtough,
- un stoppable,
- most hang-tough,
- more unstoppable,
- un-stoppable,
- most hang tough,
- stop nothing,
- most unstoppable,
- most hangtough,
- more hangtough,
- stop at nothing,
- un forgiving,
- more hang-tough,
- un-forgiving.
- more unregenerate,
- most unregenerate,
- un-merciful,
- most uncontrite,
- un contrite,
- un-contrite,
- more uncontrite,
- un merciful,
- un regenerate.
- in variable,
- un changing,
- more chiseled,
- most unpermissive,
- tough nut crack,
- un permissive,
- un-changing,
- unpermissive,
- un breakable,
- in elastic,
- un-permissive,
- most chiseled,
- un-breakable,
- strait laced,
- in-variable,
- in-elastic,
- un-moving,
- un moving,
- more unpermissive,
- unbreakable.
- grim,
- demanding,
- stringent,
- stark,
- correct,
- frosty,
- curt,
- cool,
- chilly,
- precise,
- fundamental,
- cutting,
- blunt,
- spartan,
- sharp,
- strict,
- icy,
- ascetic,
- brusque,
- caustic,
- disciplined,
- basic,
- acerbic,
- puritanical,
- authoritarian,
- unsmiling,
- gruff,
- censorious,
- intense,
- abrupt,
- piquant,
- meticulous,
- lean,
- oppressive,
- dry,
- raw,
- severe,
- critical,
- crisp,
- spare,
- short,
- acrimonious,
- tart,
- brisk,
- dour,
- rigorous,
- imperial,
- keen,
- astringent,
- draconian,
- bleak,
- acute,
- prudish,
- strait-laced,
- exacting.
- in tense,
- trueblue,
- in-tenser,
- re liablest,
- re-liabler,
- un questioning,
- un-faltering,
- steadfast,
- re-liablest,
- true-blue,
- un-questioning,
- re liabler,
- un swerving,
- re-liable,
- in-tense,
- in tenser,
- un-swerving,
- un faltering,
- in-tensest,
- liege.
- dauntless,
- stiff,
- devoted,
- flintlike,
- bold,
- bullheaded,
- courageous,
- spunky,
- strong,
- plucky,
- retentive,
- tireless,
- true,
- insistent,
- enduring,
- persevering,
- indomitable,
- fervent,
- brave,
- unforgetful,
- undaunted,
- faithful,
- hearty,
- unflagging,
- decisive,
- strong-willed,
- determined,
- diligent,
- indefatigable.
- more unflexible,
- sticking to one guns,
- sticking to ones guns,
- standing one's ground,
- standing ones ground,
- sticking guns,
- un-bending,
- most unflexible,
- sticking ones guns,
- up tight,
- do die,
- un bending,
- hold one ground,
- sticking one's guns,
- un-flexible,
- standing one ground,
- standing ground,
- hold line,
- up-tight,
- hold fort,
- sticking one guns,
- hold ones ground,
- re served,
- sticking to guns,
- re-served,
- un flexible.
- more brick wall,
- more brickwall,
- un-compromising,
- more brick-wall,
- most brick wall,
- un compromising,
- brickwall,
- most brick-wall,
- most brickwall.
- going with flow,
- more unexcitable,
- most unexcitable,
- un excitable,
- along for ride,
- laidback,
- un-excitable,
- un-emotional,
- un emotional,
- un demonstrative,
- un-demonstrative.
- more feelingless,
- most feelingless,
- more unamiable,
- in animate,
- more iron hearted,
- un-feeling,
- most uncordial,
- Iron-hearted,
- un-cordial,
- more sensationless,
- most iron-hearted,
- iron hearted,
- un feeling,
- more ironhearted,
- un amiable,
- most anesthetized,
- most unamiable,
- un-amiable,
- most iron hearted,
- most sensationless,
- more iron-hearted,
- more uncordial,
- more deadened,
- un cordial,
- more anesthetized,
- in-animate,
- most deadened,
- most ironhearted.
- dis interested,
- un-congenial,
- un-sympathetic,
- more aversive,
- most aversive,
- dis-interested,
- un congenial,
- un sympathetic,
- Half-hearted,
- half hearted.
- more immalleable,
- most impliable,
- more impliable,
- un yielding,
- Immalleable,
- most immalleable,
- un-yielding.
- un-dependable,
- un-stablest,
- self indulgent,
- more cross-grained,
- more crossgrained,
- un stable,
- selfindulgent,
- most cross-grained,
- un stablest,
- un-stabler,
- un stabler,
- most crossgrained,
- un dependable,
- more cross grained,
- cross grained,
- most cross grained,
- in corrigible,
- in-corrigible,
- un predictable,
- un-stable,
- un-predictable,
- in-constant.
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Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- unwavering,
- Dure,
- ironlike,
- move,
- sticker,
- impervious,
- Hard-shell,
- froward,
- standoffish,
- coercive,
- painstaking,
- inured,
- hard-working,
- unremitting,
- habitual,
- sturdy,
- frigid,
- inculcate,
- affectless,
- solidified,
- brazen,
- inaccessible,
- immutable,
- bouldery,
- set on,
- savage,
- grinding,
- tyrannical,
- Headiness,
- wayward,
- balky,
- unruly,
- penitent,
- chasten,
- bouldered,
- uncharitable,
- soulless,
- dead,
- insensitive,
- villainous,
- emphatic,
- wicked,
- reprobate,
- ingrain,
- hypocrite,
- unvarying,
- beastly,
- Indurated,
- unshakeable,
- laborious,
- industrious,
- aloof,
- pachydermatous,
- mutinous,
- segregationist,
- impenetrable,
- impregnable,
- graceless,
- dull,
- cold,
- habituate,
- orthodox,
- Cemental,
- unchanging,
- sticky,
- cold-fisted,
- Procrustean,
- pushy,
- establish,
- dogmatist,
- bony,
- granitelike,
- searching,
- despotic,
- unfaltering,
- take-no-prisoners,
- bullhead,
- insentient,
- fundamentalist,
- purist,
- culpable,
- opinionated,
- incurable,
- bias,
- hanging tough,
- insensate,
- rugged,
- Precisian,
- haughty,
- tenacity,
- guilty,
- fixed,
- extortionate,
- Inconvincible,
- unmoving,
- overbearing,
- inure,
- inert,
- prostitute,
- unnatural,
- persistence,
- indurate,
- absolute,
- straitlaced,
- desensitized,
- Lapideous,
- benumbed,
- Lithoidal,
- mollify,
- unfriendly,
- infuse,
- perseverance,
- Hard-headed,
- calloused,
- hopeless,
- arrogant,
- instill,
- irreclaimable,
- impregnate,
- determination,
- naughty,
- opposed,
- constant,
- defiant,
- reserved,
- exigent,
- zealot,
- compressed,
- lost,
- Impercipient,
- rebellious,
- unstoppable,
- cold of heart,
- diamondlike,
- recusant,
- puritanic,
- certain,
- resistant,
- sinful,
- Imperceptive,
- iron-handed,
- unaccommodating,
- unmoved,
- Rigorist,
- mean,
- set,
- petrified,
- malevolent,
- marble,
- stalwart,
- unchangeable,
- definite,
- consolidate,
- nut,
- pigheaded,
- pat,
- fastidious,
- hardy,
- unvaried,
- antifeminist,
- Ungiving,
- sexist,
- obtuse,
- cold fish,
- rocklike,
- wilful,
- stand pat,
- resolved,
- Lithoid,
- unflinching,
- dictatorial,
- revolting,
- unmerciful,
- close,
- unforgiving,
- impress,
- ungovernable,
- taxing,
- unshaken,
- granulate,
- fast,
- autocratic,
- uncooperative,
- straightlaced,
- bad,
- domineering,
- fanatic,
- Ironbound,
- condensed,
- obstinacy,
- merciless,
- brassy,
- cocksure,
- harden,
- unapproachable,
- rockbound,
- unregenerated,
- inclement,
- decided,
- unperceptive,
- leathery,
- chauvinist,
- granite,
- numb,
- ironclad,
- invariable,
- ironhanded,
- single-minded,
- uncaring,
- thick-witted,
- racist,
- transfuse,
- reprehensible,
- corneous,
- brutal,
- unresponsive,
- punitive,
- unkind,
- coagulate,
- pervert,
- bigot,
- hard-bitten,
- overconfident,
- concrete,
- cement,
- instil,
- horny,
- cruel,
- slash-and-burn,
- refractory,
- untiring,
- muscle-bound,
- categorical,
- unswerving,
- persisting,
- disobedient,
- ossified,
- petrify,
- unremorseful,
- osseous,
- bigotry,
- stubbornness,
- resistive,
- asleep,
- inflexibility,
- solidify,
- recalcitrant,
- chutzpadik,
- magisterial,
- fiend,
- set upon,
- remote,
- unalterable,
- devotee,
- shameless,
- deadened,
- withering,
- assertive,
- pontifical,
- unshakable,
- Puristic,
- stonelike,
- dense,
- Rhadamanthine,
- congeal,
- overweening,
- imperious,
- insolent,
- seared,
- Stoney,
- unrelieved,
- unfelt,
- Stony-hearted,
- puritan,
- inhumane,
- inquisitorial,
- indifferent,
- Impassible,
- unconquerable,
- prim,
- untouched,
- maniac,
- unmelted,
- dispassionate,
- self-opinionated,
- imperative,
- inveterate,
- diehard,
- positive,
- heady,
- close-minded,
- arbitrary,
- unblushing,
- firmness,
- conscienceless,
- Numbed,
- fix,
- anarchic,
- thick-skinned,
- solid,
- incorrigible.
How to use "Obdurate" in context?
In English, the adjective obdurate means stubborn, unyielding, and unyielding to persuasion. This adjective is often used to describe people or animals who are not willing to change their minds or conform to social norms. Someone who is obdurate is not likely to change their mind even if they are presented with compelling evidence or arguments. The noun obduracy is the quality or state of being obdurate.
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obstinate.
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- Synonyms:
- boozify, check a parameter.