What is another word for stubborn?

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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, opinionated, 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, pat, hard-nosed, stubborn, standing pat, uncompromising, Unswayable, unbendable, immovable, insistent, hanging tough, loath, averse, negative, unruly, ornery, reluctant, obstinate, hesitant, indisposed, unpredictable, bound determined, 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, 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, unpersuadable, close minded, more unpersuadable, un-persuadable, most unpersuadable, closeminded, un persuadable, closedminded, closed minded, conflicting, diametric, contradictory, counter, adverse, opposed, nonconforming, converse, reverse, dissident, antipodal, antithetical, inconsistent, hostile, inimical, froward, wayward, discordant, antipathetic, antipodean, clashing, nonconformist, factious, alienated, haughty, Pig-headed, irreconcilable, mutinous, insurgent, disaffected, estranged, seditious, unaware, unmoved, oblivious, unhearing, to listen blind, self-willed, confrontational, insubordinate, audacious, resistant, defiant, bold, insolent, daring, dissenting, challenging, rebellious, earnest, on ice, resolved, intent, decided, buckled down, unflinching, mean business, unhesitating, unwavering, decisive, bent, serious, bent on, intractable, dictatorial, unrealistic, fanatical, doctrinaire, biased, stiff-necked, magisterial, dictative, one-sided, speculative, bigoted, authoritarian, impractical, authoritative, hardheaded, staunch, most perseverant, un-flagging, most perseverative, most hardheaded, un flagging, more perseverative, more perseverant, 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, 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, un favorable, un-favorable, 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, harder, unsparing, hard as nails, more unwaivering, dyed in the wool, most unwaivering, most unsentimental, hard nosed, nononsense, un-sentimental, tough minded, toughminded, stubborn as mule, more hard nosed, more unsentimental, un sentimental, hell-bent, hellbent, 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, in escapable, in exorable, un appeasable, un-movable, un movable, like death taxes, un-appeasable, in-exorable, in-escapable, 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, long lasting, longlasting, steelest, steeliest, more ferric, most ferrous, most ferric, more ferrous, steelier, in the bag, prearranged, inelastic, rigid, adamant, study at obstinate, mulish, bovine, pertinacious, inflexible, obdurate, hidebound, brass-bound, hardline, high-handed, weighted, set-on, hard line, seton, highhanded, tilted, self-assertive, persistent, in terminable, most bulldogged, un-remitting, never ending, more bulldogged, un remitting, inter-minable, in-terminable, 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, 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, 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, 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, Undesigning, singleminded, 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, 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, un gainlier, un graceful, more unrelaxed, most unrelaxed, un relaxed, un-natural, un gainliest, un gainly, un-relaxed, unrelaxed, un-graceful, un-gainly, 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, headstrong, firm, relentless, pouty, tenebrific, sourpussed, flintlike, indefatigable, brave, devoted, unforgetful, tireless, true, hearty, retentive, faithful, strong, fervent, plucky, undaunted, diligent, spunky, courageous, unflagging, dauntless, 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, 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, irrepressible, Insuppressible, like a loose cannon, Unrestrainable, uncontainable, going all way, going the way, un tiring, un-tiring, un-failing, un faltering, un-faltering, un failing, going way, un stirred, dis passionate, un touched, un moved, un-moved, un-stirred, un-emotional, dis-passionate, un emotional, un-touched, unhelpful, disinclined, unwilling, unconsenting, non-consenting, noncooperative, Resisting, squeamish, uncooperative, uncomplying, Immalleable, more immalleable, un compliant, un-yielding, un yielding, most impliable, un-compliant, most immalleable, more impliable, 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, acute, advanced, catching, congenital, clinical, benign, communicable, autoimmune, asymptomatic, narrow, remorseless, resist, conservative, robust, continue, solid, bloody-minded, bolshy, bulldog, bullet-headed, bullheaded, cantankerous, contrarious, difficult, dour, intolerant

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