Synonyms for Stubborn:

• adj.

  •adamant (adjective)
  • pat,
  • hard-nosed,
  • stubborn,
  • standing pat,
  • uncompromising,
  • Unswayable,
  • unbendable,
  • immovable,
  • insistent,
  • hanging tough.
  •balky (adjective)
  • loath,
  • averse,
  • negative,
  • unruly,
  • ornery,
  • reluctant,
  • obstinate,
  • hesitant,
  • indisposed,
  • unpredictable.
  •bound and determined (adjective)
  • bound determined.
  •callous (adjective)
  • unaffected,
  • insensate,
  • insensitive,
  • insentient,
  • torpid,
  • apathetic,
  • heartless,
  • indifferent,
  • unconcerned,
  • thick-skinned,
  • Indurated,
  • cold,
  • toughened,
  • stony,
  • careless,
  • unfeeling,
  • inured,
  • uncaring,
  • hardened,
  • unsympathetic,
  • hard-bitten,
  • unsusceptible,
  • impenitent,
  • impassive,
  • cold-blooded,
  • unresponsive,
  • soulless,
  • insensible,
  • hard-boiled,
  • spiritless,
  • hardhearted,
  • unimpressionable,
  • uncompassionate.
  •chronic (adjective)
  • deep-seated,
  • confirmed,
  • continuous,
  • deep-rooted,
  • Recurring,
  • sustained,
  • continuing,
  • constant,
  • ceaseless,
  • continual,
  • persisting,
  • prolonged,
  • routine,
  • ingrained,
  • habitual,
  • inborn,
  • long-lived,
  • settled,
  • inbred,
  • incurable,
  • recurrent,
  • long-standing,
  • lifelong,
  • unmitigated,
  • perennial,
  • abiding,
  • usual,
  • lasting,
  • enduring.
  •close-minded (adjective)
  • unpersuadable,
  • close minded,
  • more unpersuadable,
  • un-persuadable,
  • most unpersuadable,
  • closeminded,
  • un persuadable,
  • closedminded,
  • closed minded.
  •contrary (adjective)
  • conflicting,
  • diametric,
  • contradictory,
  • counter,
  • adverse,
  • opposed,
  • nonconforming,
  • converse,
  • reverse,
  • dissident,
  • antipodal,
  • antithetical,
  • inconsistent,
  • hostile,
  • inimical,
  • froward,
  • wayward,
  • discordant,
  • antipathetic,
  • antipodean,
  • clashing,
  • nonconformist.
  •contumacious (adjective)
  • factious,
  • alienated,
  • haughty,
  • Pig-headed,
  • irreconcilable,
  • mutinous,
  • insurgent,
  • disaffected,
  • estranged,
  • seditious.
  •deaf (adjective)
  • unaware,
  • unmoved,
  • oblivious,
  • unhearing,
  • to listen blind,
  • self-willed.
  •defiant (adjective)
  • confrontational,
  • insubordinate,
  • audacious,
  • resistant,
  • defiant,
  • bold,
  • insolent,
  • daring,
  • dissenting,
  • challenging,
  • rebellious.
  •determined (adjective)
  • earnest,
  • on ice,
  • resolved,
  • intent,
  • decided,
  • buckled down,
  • unflinching,
  • mean business,
  • unhesitating,
  • unwavering,
  • decisive,
  • bent,
  • serious,
  • bent on.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • intractable.
  •doctrinaire (adjective)
  • dictatorial,
  • unrealistic,
  • fanatical,
  • doctrinaire,
  • biased,
  • stiff-necked,
  • magisterial,
  • dictative,
  • one-sided,
  • speculative,
  • bigoted,
  • authoritarian,
  • impractical,
  • authoritative.
  •dogged (adjective)
  • hardheaded,
  • staunch,
  • most perseverant,
  • un-flagging,
  • most perseverative,
  • most hardheaded,
  • un flagging,
  • more perseverative,
  • more perseverant.
  •dogmatic (adjective)
  • in tolerant,
  • most wrong-headed,
  • peremptory,
  • more wrong headed,
  • wrong headed,
  • un equivocal,
  • un-equivocal,
  • most wrong headed,
  • narrowminded,
  • most fascistic,
  • de finite,
  • Over-bearing,
  • narrow minded,
  • de-finite,
  • more wrong-headed,
  • over bearing,
  • in-tolerant,
  • high mighty,
  • more fascistic.
  •fanatical (adjective)
  • in corrigible,
  • monomaniacal,
  • more bugged,
  • most monomaniacal,
  • mono-maniacal,
  • nuts for,
  • de voted,
  • more obsessive,
  • de-voted,
  • in-corrigible,
  • obsessive,
  • more monomaniacal,
  • most obsessive,
  • mono maniacal,
  • most bugged.
  •froward (adjective)
  • un favorable,
  • un-favorable.
  •grim (adjective)
  • fore-boding,
  • most glowering,
  • more glowering,
  • more foreboding,
  • splenetic,
  • most splenetic,
  • more splenetic,
  • most scowling,
  • most crabbed,
  • most foreboding,
  • fore boding,
  • forbidding,
  • more scowling,
  • grisly.
  •hard (adjective)
  • harder,
  • unsparing,
  • hard as nails.
  •hard-core (adjective)
  • more unwaivering,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • most unwaivering.
  •hard-nosed (adjective)
  • most unsentimental,
  • hard nosed,
  • nononsense,
  • un-sentimental,
  • tough minded,
  • toughminded,
  • stubborn as mule,
  • more hard nosed,
  • more unsentimental,
  • un sentimental.
  •hell-bent (adjective)
  • hell-bent,
  • hellbent.
  •indomitable (adjective)
  • in-superable,
  • in vincible,
  • in-vulnerable,
  • in-vincible,
  • un-conquerable,
  • un-beatable,
  • un-assailable,
  • in superable,
  • more undefeatable,
  • un beatable,
  • in surmountable,
  • un assailable,
  • most undefeatable,
  • un conquerable,
  • in-surmountable,
  • in vulnerable.
  •inexorable (adjective)
  • in escapable,
  • in exorable,
  • un appeasable,
  • un-movable,
  • un movable,
  • like death taxes,
  • un-appeasable,
  • in-exorable,
  • in-escapable.
  •intractable (adjective)
  • more bull headed,
  • un pliablest,
  • bull headed,
  • most bull-headed,
  • unpliablest,
  • un-pliablest,
  • unpliabler,
  • un pliabler,
  • un-pliable,
  • un pliable,
  • in tractable,
  • in soluble,
  • un-cooperative,
  • in-soluble,
  • un cooperative,
  • un-pliabler,
  • more bull-headed,
  • in-tractable,
  • most bull headed.
  •inveterate (adjective)
  • long lasting,
  • longlasting.
  •iron (adjective)
  • steelest,
  • steeliest,
  • more ferric,
  • most ferrous,
  • most ferric,
  • more ferrous,
  • steelier.
  •ironclad (adjective)
  • in the bag,
  • prearranged.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • inelastic,
  • rigid,
  • adamant,
  • study at obstinate,
  • mulish,
  • bovine,
  • pertinacious,
  • inflexible,
  • obdurate,
  • hidebound,
  • brass-bound.
  •opinionated (adjective)
  • hardline,
  • high-handed,
  • weighted,
  • set-on,
  • hard line,
  • seton,
  • highhanded,
  • tilted,
  • self-assertive.
  •persistent (adjective)
  • persistent,
  • in terminable,
  • most bulldogged,
  • un-remitting,
  • never ending,
  • more bulldogged,
  • un remitting,
  • inter-minable,
  • in-terminable.
  •perverse (adjective)
  • de-generate,
  • un healthiest,
  • bad tempered,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un-healthiest,
  • dis-obedient,
  • un-healthy,
  • un reasonable,
  • de generate,
  • badtempered,
  • un healthier,
  • un healthy,
  • dis obedient.
  •purposeful (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • in tense,
  • un-deviating,
  • de-liberate,
  • playing hard ball,
  • tele logical,
  • more purposive,
  • in-tense,
  • in-tensest,
  • un deviating,
  • most telelogical,
  • tele-logical,
  • more telelogical,
  • in tenser,
  • most purposive,
  • de liberate,
  • most undeviating,
  • more undeviating.
  •recalcitrant (adjective)
  • more withstanding,
  • more insubmissive,
  • un willing,
  • un-disciplined,
  • more undisciplinable,
  • un-willing,
  • most undisciplinable,
  • with-standing,
  • in submissive,
  • un disciplined,
  • un-governable,
  • in-submissive,
  • un disciplinable,
  • un-disciplinable,
  • with standing,
  • most withstanding,
  • most insubmissive.
  •set (adjective)
  • Sited,
  • most jelled,
  • more situate,
  • pre scribed,
  • most well set,
  • pre-determined,
  • most positioned,
  • most well-set,
  • located,
  • most situate,
  • hard and fast,
  • well set,
  • more well-set,
  • more concluded,
  • re-gular,
  • most stipulated,
  • wellset,
  • un flappable,
  • more positioned,
  • hard fast,
  • most wellset,
  • more sited,
  • pre determined,
  • most concluded,
  • more well set,
  • pre-scribed,
  • more wellset,
  • re gular,
  • more jelled,
  • more stipulated,
  • most sited.
  •single-minded (adjective)
  • Undesigning,
  • singleminded.
  •steadfast (adjective)
  • most never failing,
  • un questioning,
  • re-liabler,
  • re-liable,
  • more neverfailing,
  • never failing,
  • true-blue,
  • re liabler,
  • more never failing,
  • neverfailing,
  • un qualified,
  • most neverfailing,
  • steadfast,
  • liege,
  • un swerving,
  • re-liablest,
  • more never-failing,
  • re liablest,
  • trueblue,
  • un-questioning,
  • un-swerving,
  • un-qualified,
  • most never-failing.
  •stern (adjective)
  • hangtough,
  • more hangtough,
  • flinty,
  • most mortified,
  • most hang-tough,
  • more hang tough,
  • most hangtough,
  • most hang tough,
  • by book,
  • stern,
  • more hang-tough,
  • more mortified,
  • hardshell.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • un gainlier,
  • un graceful,
  • more unrelaxed,
  • most unrelaxed,
  • un relaxed,
  • un-natural,
  • un gainliest,
  • un gainly,
  • un-relaxed,
  • unrelaxed,
  • un-graceful,
  • un-gainly.
  •strong-willed (adjective)
  • more iron willed,
  • most iron willed,
  • iron-willed,
  • strongwilled,
  • most mullish,
  • more ironwilled,
  • strong willed,
  • most ironwilled,
  • ironwilled,
  • iron willed,
  • more mullish,
  • most iron-willed,
  • more iron-willed.
  •stubborn (adjective)
  • headstrong,
  • firm,
  • relentless.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • pouty,
  • tenebrific,
  • sourpussed.
  •tenacious (adjective)
  • flintlike,
  • indefatigable,
  • brave,
  • devoted,
  • unforgetful,
  • tireless,
  • true,
  • hearty,
  • retentive,
  • faithful,
  • strong,
  • fervent,
  • plucky,
  • undaunted,
  • diligent,
  • spunky,
  • courageous,
  • unflagging,
  • dauntless.
  •tough (adjective)
  • more hard shelled,
  • most hard shelled,
  • unforgiving,
  • un-forgiving,
  • most ruffianly,
  • more hardshelled,
  • un forgiving,
  • most hardshelled,
  • hardshelled,
  • hard shelled,
  • more ruffianly,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • more hard-shelled.
  •unbending (adjective)
  • more unflexible,
  • un bending,
  • hold fort,
  • hold ones ground,
  • re-served,
  • sticking guns,
  • in-compliant,
  • un flexible,
  • sticking one guns,
  • re served,
  • standing ones ground,
  • standing one ground,
  • standing ground,
  • in elastic,
  • hold one ground,
  • sticking ones guns,
  • sticking to one guns,
  • un-flexible,
  • sticking to ones guns,
  • in-elastic,
  • sticking to guns,
  • un-bending,
  • in compliant,
  • most unflexible,
  • do die,
  • standing one's ground,
  • hold line,
  • sticking one's guns.
  •uncontrollable (adjective)
  • irrepressible,
  • Insuppressible,
  • like a loose cannon,
  • Unrestrainable,
  • uncontainable.
  •unfaltering (adjective)
  • going all way,
  • going the way,
  • un tiring,
  • un-tiring,
  • un-failing,
  • un faltering,
  • un-faltering,
  • un failing,
  • going way.
  •unmoved (adjective)
  • un stirred,
  • dis passionate,
  • un touched,
  • un moved,
  • un-moved,
  • un-stirred,
  • un-emotional,
  • dis-passionate,
  • un emotional,
  • un-touched.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • unhelpful,
  • disinclined,
  • unwilling,
  • unconsenting,
  • non-consenting,
  • noncooperative,
  • Resisting,
  • squeamish,
  • uncooperative,
  • uncomplying.
  •unyielding (adjective)
  • Immalleable,
  • more immalleable,
  • un compliant,
  • un-yielding,
  • un yielding,
  • most impliable,
  • un-compliant,
  • most immalleable,
  • more impliable.
  •wayward (adjective)
  • most cross grained,
  • more cross grained,
  • un-stabler,
  • in-constant,
  • un-stablest,
  • un stablest,
  • most crossgrained,
  • more crossgrained,
  • most cross-grained,
  • un-stable,
  • un stable,
  • un-dependable,
  • self indulgent,
  • more cross-grained,
  • un dependable,
  • cross grained,
  • un stabler,
  • selfindulgent.

• n.

  •
  • acute,
  • advanced,
  • catching,
  • congenital,
  • clinical,
  • benign,
  • communicable,
  • autoimmune,
  • asymptomatic.
  •
  • narrow,
  • remorseless,
  • resist,
  • conservative.
  •
  • robust,
  • continue,
  • solid.
  •bloody-minded (noun)
  • bloody-minded.
  •bolshy (noun)
  • bolshy.
  •bulldog (noun)
  • bulldog.
  •bullet-headed (noun)
  • bullet-headed.
  •bullheaded (noun)
  • bullheaded.
  •cantankerous (noun)
  • cantankerous.
  •contrarious (noun)
  • contrarious.
  •difficult (noun)
  • difficult.
  •dour (noun)
  • dour.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • intolerant,
  • dyed-in-the-wool,
  • Hard-headed,
  • reactionary,
  • suburban,
  • Incompliant,
  • meat and potatoes,
  • small-minded,
  • adamantine,
  • bigot,
  • shockproof,
  • invulnerable,
  • indestructible,
  • flameproof,
  • indissoluble,
  • heatproof,
  • heat-resistant,
  • ineradicable,
  • rustproof,
  • fireproof,
  • inviolate,
  • shatterproof,
  • unadventurous,
  • uncompliant,
  • brassbound,
  • water-resistant,
  • unbreakable,
  • irresistible,
  • parochial,
  • unassailable,
  • neoconservative,
  • sturdy,
  • narrow-minded,
  • stodgy,
  • blinkered,
  • small town,
  • stuffy,
  • closed.
  •
  • die-hard,
  • incorruptible,
  • bombproof,
  • defensible,
  • impregnable,
  • sectarian,
  • well-built,
  • severe,
  • unbeatable,
  • unshakable,
  • invincible,
  • bulletproof,
  • deaf,
  • heavy-duty,
  • rooted,
  • industrial-strength,
  • repulsive,
  • durable,
  • weatherproof,
  • unrelenting.
  •
  • substantially,
  • stout,
  • Cast iron.
  •
  • waterproof.
  •
  • sure.
  •
  • tight.
  •bigoted
  • opinionated.
  •Other relevant words:
  • harsh,
  • untoward,
  • hear,
  • tangled,
  • doggedness,
  • rapt,
  • Unlimber,
  • self-opinionated,
  • definitely,
  • attachment,
  • Procrustean,
  • set upon,
  • turbulent,
  • aggressive,
  • desperate,
  • hardy,
  • plaguy,
  • hard fact,
  • genuinely,
  • invariable,
  • petulant,
  • undisciplined,
  • tumultuous,
  • cussed,
  • gummy,
  • Ironbound,
  • Nonelastic,
  • unhesitant,
  • fidgety,
  • disagree,
  • adherent,
  • cattle,
  • unwearied,
  • segregationist,
  • overzealous,
  • no joke,
  • defensive,
  • authentically,
  • attach,
  • surely,
  • ox,
  • complaint,
  • hold,
  • clearly,
  • obstructive,
  • correctly,
  • fixed,
  • no doubt,
  • stormy,
  • unwieldy,
  • unconquerable,
  • inextensile,
  • oxen,
  • changeless,
  • pigheaded,
  • Intractile,
  • brazen,
  • bane,
  • outline,
  • unchanging,
  • cocksure,
  • Plugging,
  • fast,
  • pugnacious,
  • preoccupied,
  • overbearing,
  • rugged,
  • labyrinthine,
  • unswerving,
  • leatherlike,
  • convoluted,
  • Starched,
  • importunate,
  • disorderly,
  • apparently,
  • unblinking,
  • emphatic,
  • perseverance,
  • isolated,
  • unregenerate,
  • get,
  • undiscouraged,
  • immutable,
  • sound,
  • unshaken,
  • make an effort,
  • bull,
  • diehard,
  • gutsy,
  • Rhadamanthine,
  • wiry,
  • ungovernable,
  • sinful,
  • provincial,
  • necessity,
  • single-minded,
  • awkward,
  • unmoving,
  • overconfident,
  • uninterrupted,
  • willful,
  • unequivocally,
  • solidify,
  • established,
  • plodding,
  • assume,
  • primarily,
  • play,
  • stroppy,
  • restrain,
  • evidently,
  • admittedly,
  • lawless,
  • muscle-bound,
  • coriaceous,
  • adhere,
  • forceful,
  • rebel,
  • limited,
  • sleepless,
  • understand,
  • appendix,
  • naughty,
  • absolutely,
  • bad,
  • stalwart,
  • domineering,
  • purist,
  • imperious,
  • confine,
  • adhesive,
  • hopeless,
  • ironhanded,
  • gristly,
  • categorical,
  • energetic,
  • become solid,
  • petty,
  • Unintermitting,
  • obstruct,
  • definite,
  • indubitably,
  • noncompliant,
  • unrepentant,
  • repress,
  • distinctly,
  • pontifical,
  • starch,
  • regional,
  • unfailing,
  • secure,
  • rightly,
  • wilful,
  • against the grain,
  • unvarying,
  • gluey,
  • obstinately,
  • ill-behaved,
  • tense,
  • Invious,
  • decidedly,
  • despotic,
  • leathery,
  • credibly,
  • check,
  • fractious,
  • suppose,
  • naturally,
  • rightfully,
  • unsubmissive,
  • rockbound,
  • urgent,
  • sinewy,
  • obstreperous,
  • sedulous,
  • affect,
  • puritanical,
  • Ungiving,
  • inhibit,
  • viscid,
  • twister,
  • unremitting,
  • unconquered,
  • wicked,
  • anarchic,
  • catch,
  • unreformable,
  • pinch,
  • unmalleable,
  • stark,
  • partial,
  • depraved,
  • consolidate,
  • contain,
  • gritty,
  • sexist,
  • certain,
  • Inconvincible,
  • prejudiced,
  • indeed,
  • inert,
  • decisively,
  • cartilaginous,
  • compelling,
  • straightlaced,
  • tenacity,
  • illiberal,
  • curb,
  • short-sighted,
  • unregulated,
  • antagonistic,
  • surmise,
  • unaccommodating,
  • plainly,
  • stubbornness,
  • rigorous,
  • forgive,
  • Puristic,
  • stifle,
  • quell,
  • unvaried,
  • knotted,
  • untiring,
  • villainous,
  • positive,
  • unbowed,
  • uncultured,
  • condone,
  • local,
  • overweening,
  • restricted,
  • violent,
  • bulldoggy,
  • Sequacious,
  • refractory,
  • Irresilient,
  • presume,
  • epitome,
  • be attached to,
  • summary,
  • synopsis,
  • straitlaced,
  • unquestionably,
  • tornado,
  • Clingy,
  • knotty,
  • certainly,
  • unreasonable,
  • belligerent,
  • bind,
  • illness,
  • ailment,
  • icy,
  • indocile,
  • inextensible,
  • orthodox,
  • in fine feather,
  • obstinacy,
  • stable,
  • impracticable,
  • insular,
  • bulletheaded,
  • devotee,
  • patient,
  • restrict,
  • vexatious,
  • ropy,
  • revolting,
  • assiduous,
  • stick on,
  • break in two,
  • twist,
  • subdue,
  • in high feather,
  • sulky,
  • unadaptable,
  • hypocrite,
  • pertinacity,
  • arrogant,
  • hard-working,
  • unreconstructed,
  • riotous,
  • patently,
  • affection,
  • intricate,
  • indurate,
  • unalterable,
  • differ,
  • incisive,
  • undisputedly,
  • chauvinist,
  • arbitrary,
  • cohesive,
  • conventional,
  • cool,
  • unmanageable,
  • uncultivated,
  • undoubtedly,
  • disobedient,
  • suppress,
  • cast-iron,
  • unsleeping,
  • set in one's ways,
  • assuredly,
  • incorrigible,
  • strict,
  • fundamentalist,
  • tacky,
  • inalterable,
  • stringy,
  • irreversible,
  • fibrous,
  • heady,
  • unsophisticated,
  • pushy,
  • resin,
  • proof,
  • positively,
  • sticky,
  • puritan,
  • ossified,
  • expect,
  • vigorous,
  • tempestuous,
  • assertive,
  • racist,
  • originally,
  • Inductile,
  • never-tiring,
  • complicated,
  • thorny,
  • self-adhesive,
  • Unrelaxing,
  • inextensional,
  • unwearying,
  • Weariless,
  • industrious,
  • glutinous,
  • trying,
  • permanent,
  • Unpliant,
  • balking,
  • unfluctuating,
  • Rigorist,
  • laborious,
  • austere,
  • Undrooping,
  • unworldly,
  • combative,
  • pathless,
  • impossible,
  • fanatic,
  • puritanic,
  • interpret,
  • stubbornly,
  • trackless,
  • chewy,
  • unregenerated,
  • congeal,
  • stunt,
  • openly,
  • slogging,
  • Untractable.

Paraphrases for Stubborn:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    tenacious, persistent, dogged, obstinate.
  • Verb, past participle
    obstinate.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    strenuous, entrenched, stupid, tough, steadfast, diehard, blinkered, die-hard, fierce, resolute, stiff, violent, recurrent, protracted, recalcitrant.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    headstrong, intransigent, relentless, indomitable, intractable, feisty, insistent, narrow-minded, Hard-headed, hard-nosed, strong, shortsighted, rigid.

Antonyms for Stubborn:

• adj.

  • adamant
    pliant, flexible, submissive.
  • balky
    cooperative.
  • callous
    sympathetic, tender, feeling, sensitive, nice, kind, compassionate.
  • chronic
    curable, eradicable, temporary, intermittent, occasional.
  • contrary
    concordant, accommodating, correspondent, similar, homogeneous, like, harmonious, agreeing, alike, obliging.
  • contumacious
    obedient, subordinate, tractable, following.
  • deaf
    aware, conscious, listening, attentive.
  • determined
    hesitating, irresolute, weak, vacillating, wavering.
  • doctrinaire
    amenable, manageable.
  • stubborn
    broad-minded, complacent, yielding, compliant, giving.
  • Other antonyms:
    complying, persuadable, accepting, complaisant, governable, responsive, manipulable, slavish, subservient, temperate, placable, acquiescent, agreeable, gentle, receptive, willing, reasonable, dutiful, undecided, teachable.